Super Tuesday Open Thread

Posted on March 1, 2016 by Luke Ford

Comments to Steve Sailer:

* Paul Ryan announced today (or yesterday) that a Republican candidate must always renounce “bigotry”, no ifs and whens.

* I’m waiting for a GOP’er with balls to declare BLM a hate group.

* I’m waiting for Black Lives Matters to declare Trump supporters a hate group. In the pages of National Review.

* Super Tuesday, like most of the primary season, has largely turned on the issue of immigration. So far, only one major candidate has sounded constant and consistent on true reform (e.g. one that includes building a wall; securing the borders; a moratorium on Muslim immigration; etc).

Yesterday’s NYT’s article concerning the Gang of 8, Rubio, and how the donorist classes actively pursued FOX news/conservatives such as Rush Limbaugh, Levin, etc. to help promote or “sell” immigration/amnesty to conservative rank and file grass roots members is quite informative. That the powers that be felt the need to manipulate the entire issue and frame the debate into a “the yokels out on the hinterland have to be cowed into accepting what’s right for them”

I hope that Mr. Peter Brimelow of VDARE, a true honest patriot on the issue of immigration for well over twenty years will read this: Sir, as you’ve written yourself before in past articles regarding the recalcitrance of some Conservatives not to support patriotic reform, well, now we know why. As you yourself made mention that when you talked to Rush about the issue of immigration, he basically couldn’t be bothered. He couldn’t be bothered to lend his voice and take a public stand vs. a policy (amnesty) that would have dire far reaching consequences for decades to come.

Today we know why: Rush was AWOL and basically sold out the rank and file US voters who care deeply about the issue of immigration and the consequences that are coming. Rather than support a candidate who has made the immigration issue the centerpiece of his campaign, he chose to support Marco Rubio, handpicked by the Gang of 8 to publicly sell the ordinary GOP voters on the issue. When it came time to put principle above personal pride, Rush couldn’t be bothered and went AWOL on the immigration. I hope, sir, that you will make mention of this in a future article on VDARE.com; Rush isn’t on the right side of immigration and now we know why.

As Steve likes to say, “If you can’t trust Senator Schumer to save the GOP, who can you trust?” Well, guess we can’t trust so-called Conservative leaders who nothing more than shills for the donors and open borders lobbyists. It is sad but not entirely surprising that many of them now are backing away from their own words while still refusing to endorse the one candidate who has consistently sided with patriotic immigration reformers such as Peter Brimelow over at VDARE.com (among others).

* I would love to see Trump campaign here in CA and put it in play though and freak out the Democrats. He could pull it off. The thing the bribery class and elites compose only small segment of our population and the only reason the state is Blue is because of the police, prison and state workers unions. Numerically they’re small. Since Trump isn’t running on a union bashing platform he’d probably get a lot of their votes as well.

And yeah it’s also Blue because the CA GOP ran nothing but amnesty proponents which killed off voter interest, they also made sure their bench of candidates remained pathetic.

* As I remember the deceitful attempts to get the Gang of Eight bill through the House, this happened about the same time that Rush’s old contract was running out. He was supposedly negotiating a new one but I think he secretly had the plan all along to launch his EIB network and get a piece of the pie from everybody on the lineup.

I used to listen to him in the morning on my way to work on a house I bought and on the way home listen to Hannity. I do not recall him ever making much noise about amnesty or the attempts by Sessions to detail all the hidden stink that was in the bill. I remember one of Sessions speeches on the Senate floor when he said “If an American were to do this he would be in prison!”.

Rush never seemed to say much about it. My guess was that Rush was getting part of the advertising revenue from the EIB network and Zuckerberg’s deceitful PAC was advertising heavily on it. They did the standard trick of giving you half the story (are you for strong border control…) and never mention who they are or what they really stand for. Then they tell you to go to their web site or call their 800 number where you would be added to the list of people who support Zuckerberg’s position, thinking you have voiced your disapproval of amnesty but actually have been counted as a supporter of the Gang of Eight. This of course would be leaked out by the House to the media, all the support the bill has, and rammed through in the middle of the night based on the phony numbers.

* The only thing I remember about Rubio this week was his interest in Trump’s penis. #trump

* Overall Trump’s been doing roughly as expected, at worst only slightly underperforming. The best news for him is that while the race is clearly Trump vs. anti-Trump, all of the anti-Trumps are doing well in some places and poorly in others. Kasich is only relevant in New England, but all other anti-Trumps are flopping. Cruz won Texas and Oklahoma but is a nonentity in Virginia, and Rubio looks like he could fall short of 20% and get shut out in some places. This outcome will likely not be good enough for Trump to wrap things up, but it’s still good enough to show that no other candidate can outright beat him, and that could be enough for party regulars who may not like Trump but want to avoid a brokered convention to get on board.

* Donald Trump, speaking extemporaneously at his press conference, sounds incredibly lucid and presidential. He even used the word ‘bucolic,’ correctly I might add. He’s a very smart and perspicacious man.

* Trump’s Policy (the only one you care about, anyway) is actually long-term thinking at its finest. It’s the Globalists who don’t give a damn what happens to western civilization, or the people who should inherit it. “Anti-racist” whites are morons too stupid to think about the future in any substantive way. If they weren’t, they’d know they are making a losing bet (as things are going now: if anti-whites are right, we gain nothing, if they’re wrong we lose everything; if “racists” are right we lose everything, if they’re wrong we lose nothing).

* Trump during his press conference compared Rubio to a version of a no-talent Don Rickles. Trump has a talent for labeling events or opponents in a way which is very descriptive.

I like how Trump brings up the point about whether Clinton “will be allowed to run” due to her crimes and how people who committed lesser crimes than hers are serving long prison sentences. This stands out because no one else is talking about it, so his statements pack more of a punch.

* So Trump just gave a press conference rather than a victory speech and it was great. In my lifetime no one has sounded that presidential besides Pat Buchanan in 92. Trump is more Buchanan than Pat Buchanan. Could that be true?

* As he’s been saying, “I can act Presidentially.” Yes, he can. It was a press conference in FlA, not a rally celebrating his Super Tuesday totals. There was a line of American flags behind him…and Chris Christie, standing as VPs usually do.

He took many questions. Yes, this was the beginning of his, “I can talk policy and I can unify the party (with REAL people I represent) and I can now begin running for real against Hillary.”

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Louis Farrakhan praises Donald Trump

Posted on March 1, 2016 by Luke Ford

The Nation of Islam is perhaps the most powerful movement of black nationalism in America.

It tends to make Jews upset when you inform them that blacks don’t like them.

It’s hard to think of two peoples more different — Jews and blacks. They have little to do with each other in real life.

The interests of blacks, Jews, latinos, Muslims and whites are often different. For instance, whites around the Western world want lower taxes, less government regulation, less welfare, strong law enforcement, no affirmative action, and freedom of association. Blacks and latinos want high taxes on high earners and more government welfare and relaxed law enforcement. Muslims around the world want the destruction of the Jewish state and the destruction of Jewish dominance of the media, academia, politics and business in the West. Jews want to live. Jews want the Jewish state to survive. Jews don’t want high marginal tax rates. Jews don’t like affirmative action.

There are times when one group can advance its interests and all groups benefit. I’m thinking of scientific advances. So many of them have been accomplished by Jews but non-Jews have massively benefited. Not all scientific advances are an unalloyed blessing, but medical advances are certainly of wide benefit. When Jews get rich and create jobs for non-Jews and increase wealth in a country, that’s another example where one group (Jews) advances more than other groups but all groups are benefited in some ways. Of course, with money comes power. Would you rather be well-off but lack sovereignty in your historic homeland?

Comment:

There is a long history of interaction between black separatists and white separatists. Most of it is surprisingly amicable.

The great photojournalist Eve Arnold (most famous for her portfolio of Marilyn Monroe and her associates-she was on the set of The Misfits and as I recall introduced fellow photographer Inge Morath to Arthur Miller, whom he married and fathered two children with) covered a Black Muslim group in the later 1960s. Being Jewish, she endured a certain confrontation from the leadership, but they were respectful about it: her biggest problem was the women, who assumed she was a white huntress after their men and would burn her with cigarettes when she wasn’t looking.

The best image from the project is one of American Nazi Party leader George Lincoln Rockwell
flanked by his lieutenants, Matt Koehl and the other guy (I forget his name-it wasn’t Pierce, nor the guy that shot him, Patsalos/Patler) sitting front row and surrounded by perhaps a thousand Black Muslims. They look pretty comfortable.

From the Chateau:

* All the KKK/David Duke hail mary haranguing of Trump by the MSM actually worked in his favor. Whites heard “another one of us under siege”.

* Election results show Donald Trump on course to preside over final and ignominious destruction of degenerate American empire.

* Physiognomy alert: Paul Ryan’s face bespeaks a weak, dissolute, zero integrity man inside. The cuck visage.

* All these cucks bitching about the election of Trump meaning the end of the Republican Party… they say it like it’s a bad thing!

* Never take women’s stated opinions on men’s attractiveness seriously. (Brain-vagina disconnect).

* For a few brief weeks, the leftoid media will squeeze Paul Ryan’s biceps and suck Rubio’s foam-flecked pecker like they’re Obama 2.0. Then, once their anti-Trump usefulness is done, they’ll toss them back to the GOPe and rediscover Rubio’s “immaturity” & Ryan’s “extremism”.

* Authoritarianism is the proper response to traitorous elites and oligarchs who have captured levers of power.

* Trump’s message – essentially nationalist populism – resonates w voters, & his Game – self-salesmanship – raises the value of his message.

* Trump is both a Persuader and a Messenger. The two are not mutually exclusive.

* Abraham Lincoln was a white nationalist.

* Trump is the greatest present reaffirmation of American Democracy.

* Asian griping over off-color jokes that usually “skewer” positive traits always comes off insincere.

* Pundits who insist that Trump is a #NaziKKKWhoWantsToKill6MillionJews are dangerous demagogues who are preying on our worst fears.

* Best way to understand Trump phenomenon? Middle class revolt against high-low con job, where elites buy voters with welfare promises.

I like this tweet: “Conservatism vs Liberalism is now Nationalism vs Globalism. Nationalism can do what Conservatism never could. It can win.”

Politico: Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan praised Republican front-runner Donald Trump for refusing donations from Jewish groups.
Trump “is the only member who has stood in front of the Jewish community and said ‘I don’t want your money,’” Farrakhan said in a sermon he delivered this week. “Any time a man can say to those who control the politics of America, ‘I don’t want your money,’ that means you can’t control me. And they can’t afford to give up control of the presidents of the United States.”
Despite his commendation for the billionaire businessman, Farrakhan did not endorse him. “Not that I’m for Mr. Trump,” he added, “but I like what I’m looking at.”
Farrakhan also called Jews the “Synagogue of Satan,” according to the Anti-Defamation League, which monitors anti-Semitic statements.
In December, Trump appeared before a crowd of leading Jewish Republicans and told them, “You’re not going to support me even though I’ll be the best guy for Israel.”
“I’m a negotiator like you folks,” he also said. “Is there anyone in this room who doesn’t negotiate deals? … Probably more than any room I’ve ever spoken.”

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The media’s Trump reckoning: ‘Everyone was wrong’

Posted on March 1, 2016 by Luke Ford

Another way of saying this is that many elite Jews were wrong. Jews dominate the American media. About half of the leading pundits are Jewish. Elite Jews help set the Overton Window in America. And these Jews had no clue about the rise of Donald Trump. No clue. And that scares many Jewish elites.

Jews tend to have a distaste for populism and gentile nationalisms because almost by definition, such movements exclude Jews.

While there is no reason to believe that Donald Trump will be hostile to Jews, I wonder if his rise presages the decline of Jewish power in America?

I haven’t done a scientific study, but impression is that Jewish pundits and Jews in the MSM in general were about the last group to grasp the power of the Donald Trump phenomenon, and this says a great deal about them and how they see the world, and how out of touch they are with the concerns of non-Jewish Americans, particularly non-Jewish white Americans.

America isn’t just a country whose primary purpose is to be user-friendly for Jews. America, like Israel and Japan and France, has its own mores and values and visions. It is not the purpose of America to serve Jews or Israel or blacks or Muslims or latinos. America was created by white Protestants.

I can’t help noticing that the people with the most contempt for Trump and his followers in the following article are Jews — David Remnick, Nate Silver, Jonathan Bernstein. I’ve also heard Jewish pundits such as Dennis Prager and Bill Kristol pour on the contempt for Trump for months now. It seems like the most visceral hatred for Trump among both Republican and Democrat elites comes from Jews. Perhaps Jews are more sensitive to and afraid of seismic shifts like this one because Jews often see themselves as a tiny and defenseless people, and history’s perpetual victim of the goy’s rage and stupidity.

From Politico:

David Remnick, editor of The New Yorker, told his readers last summer that Donald Trump was running for president to promote his own brand and that the “whole con might end well before the first snows in Sioux City and Manchester.”
That was quite measured compared to James Fallows, the national correspondent of more than three decades for The Atlantic, who wrote confidently — and with his own bold for emphasis — “Donald Trump will not be the 45th president of the United States. Nor the 46th, nor any other number you might name. The chance of his winning the nomination and election is exactly zero.”
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Those two mandarins weren’t alone in dismissing Trump’s chances. Washington Post blogger Chris Cillizza wrote in July that “Donald Trump is not going to be the Republican presidential nominee in 2016.” And numbers guru Nate Silver told readers as recently as November to “stop freaking out” about Trump’s poll numbers.
Now all these journalists, and more, are coming to grips with their mistaken assessments. And some, too, are freaking out.
In an interview this week, Remnick sounded both shocked and sad about Trump’s success, saying it was “beyond belief” and reflects an “ugliness” that appeals to “every worst instinct” in America.

“The fact that so many of us, all of us, were wrong in predicting anywhere near the extent of his success so far, may be partly due to the fact we didn’t want to believe those currents could be appealed to so well and so deeply and successfully,” Remnick said.
Indeed, the knowing skepticism about Trump’s chances that Remnick expressed last summer was quite common throughout the journalism industry, from the most serious magazine journalists, writing with the voice of history, to most street-savvy, ear-to-the-ground bloggers: Trump had a polling ceiling; the Republican establishment would coalesce to bring him down; he didn’t have a sufficient ground game; one giant gaffe would inevitably bring him down; and on and on.
But barring an unprecedented convention floor fight, all signs point to the unimaginable. Trump most likely will be the Republican nominee for president.
Some columnists are still holding out the belief that Trump won’t actually win the nomination — while acknowledging that their sweeping dismissals of the possibility were off the mark. And yet, others say we’re witnessing a sea change moment in this nation’s politics.
Now, months later, Fallows acknowledges he shouldn’t have been so categorical, but warned in an email that Trump is an idiosyncratic phenomenon.
“[E]veryone (including me) has had to learn that one or another line-crossings and rule-breakings that would have stopped any previous candidates allow Trump to keep rolling on through,” he wrote. “I think an underappreciated factor here is the combination of Trump’s distinctive skill, and a changed nature of this cycle’s primary. Trump’s distinctive skill is not so much as a business executive, where his record is mixed, but as a TV performer. There’s a particular set of skills that go with reality-TV competitions, and Trump is great at them!”
There’s as much risk of “over-learning” the lessons of Trump, Fallows said, as ignoring them.
“I think it’s possible to observe what’s happening, as it happens. But this year’s circumstances — for the party, and for this man — are so unusual, in fact unprecedented, that I’m cautious about drawing up any new rules. We see how the Trump era goes, and then, we’ll see whether the landscape has been changed for the long term,” he wrote.

“The Fix” blogger Cillizza was one of the first to acknowledge that he was wrong to say “never.” Just a month after writing that “Donald Trump is not going to be the Republican presidential nominee in 2016,” he changed his tune, learning to never say “never” in politics.
“I had NEVER EVER seen a reversal in how people perceive a candidate who is as well known as Trump — much less a reversal in such a short period of time. I based my conclusion that Trump would never be a relevant player in the Republican primary fight on the ideas that once people 1) know you and 2) don’t like you, you can’t change those twin realities much,” he wrote. “That was 100 percent true. Until Donald Trump proved it (and me) wrong.”
Silver, founder of the FiveThirtyEight site, told an audience at the 92nd Street Y in New York in September that he didn’t think “Trump is very likely to win the nomination, in part because he’s not really a Republican,” and last month Silver put Trump’s chances of winning the nomination at only about 50 percent.
Now, though, a new reality seems to be setting in.
“‘With the exception of the 2016 election,’ will be a common phrase in Ph.D. dissertations in 2044,” Silver joked on Twitter last week.
“This time, we really might be in the midst of [a political realignment]. It’s almost impossible to reconcile this year’s Republican nomination contest with anyone’s notion of politics as usual,” Silver wrote this week. (Silver did not respond to requests for comment.)
Fox News’ Chris Wallace was more contrite, saying in an interview that Trump’s success proves “no one knows anything” and that analysts should stick to analyzing, not predictions.
“This has really been a huge case of humble pie to everyone in my business, myself included,” Wallace said. “Lord knows I didn’t think Trump was going to run. When he did run, I thought he had destroyed his candidacy half a dozen times. So I think one of the things you learn is that you don’t know as much as you think you know. That anyone who would be foolish enough to think that they’re an opinion maker or opinion shaper, really, this has been a case lesson in the American people will make their own decision for themselves, and that’s healthy.”
Bloomberg View’s Jonathan Bernstein isn’t so ready to admit that he was mistaken about Trump’s chances. He has held for months that Trump does not have a serious chance of being the nominee. On Monday, he wrote it’s still “quite likely he won’t be” the nominee because many Republicans will band together to stop him even if he has a big lead after Super Tuesday.
“So in 2016, many but not all of the normal incentives pushing parties to unify won’t apply if Trump is nominated. This leaves top Republicans with a difficult choice — and strong reasons to pull out the stops to defeat Trump before he grabs the nomination,” Bernstein wrote. (Bernstein didn’t respond to requests for comment.)
There’s still time for everyone, or no one, to be proven wrong. But whether Trump actually clinches the nomination, Trump’s candidacy will likely forever change how future candidates are covered.
Remnick pointed to the Philip Roth anthology, “Reading Myself and Others,” which raised the idea that in the United States, it can sometimes become impossible to write fiction “when the craziness of American reality so outstrips the imagination of even the most freewheeling novelist.”
“We’re in one of those moments,” Remnick said. “It’s enough to say, obviously considering where we are, everyone was wrong. And this gives Trump great joy, I’m sure.”

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Ben Shapiro: The Anti-Semites Are Out In Force For Trump

Posted on March 1, 2016 by Luke Ford

I wonder if the anti-Semites in these types of articles are so much anti-Semites as whites who care about whites as much as Jewish leaders care about Jews?

When whites perceive Jewish organizations pushing for more immigration of non-whites, for multi-culturalism, and for white-shaming, it is natural, healthy and good to react against that. Is that anti-Semitism?

I don’t find the term “anti-Semitism” useful. What do you call Jewish dislike of gentiles? Anti-Gentilism? What do you hatred of whites? Anti-whitism? All groups are in competition for scarce resources. It is exceedingly rare that one group pushes ahead without disadvantaging other groups. For instance, when Jews rise in power, are no other groups affected by that? Are things just peaches and cream for everyone?

“Anti-Semite” is a slur, a nasty name. It is not useful for understanding the world. It is more useful to see how groups are competing with each other and to be clear about the various competing group interests in a society and a continent. What’s good for Russia, for instance, may not be good for Poland or Germany or America. What’s good for Israel might not always be good for Syria and Lebanon and Iran.

Just because outsiders criticize you and your group in ugly ways does not mean that genocide is on the way. Sometimes harsh language leads to genocide, most of the time it does not. If you really truly hate a group, you want to get rid of it from your country. Many Israelis hate Arabs and want them gone from Israel. Most white nationalists hate Jews and want them gone from their white countries.

I don’t think Jews are wrong or bad for noticing that Donald Trump is the leader of a resurgent white nationalism in America. When they equate him to Hitler, they’re hysterical. Nationalism and a sense of victimhood does not usually lead to genocide, but it always contains the capacity for genocide.

If Jewish organizations go all out to stop Trump, Trump may well wish to crush them when he becomes president. It is rare that a group can take significant action against a target without there being pushback. If Jews get hysterical about Trump, it may not end well for Jews in America. Currently, there is no reason to believe that President Trump will permit pogroms in America. There are many reasons to believe that Donald Trump will be a Jew-friendly president and there are no reasons to believe that he will be hostile to Jews. He has never demonstrated hostility to Jews. Where is the history of his anti-Jewish behavior and speech? I don’t know of this.

Why are Jewish commentators such as Ben Shapiro getting so much anti-Jewish venom on Twitter and elsewhere? Because when Ben Shapiro criticizes America’s resurgent white nationalism, he’s making himself an enemy of those who value white identity with a similar intensity to the way that Ben Shapiro, an Orthodox Jew, values his Jewish identity. Every living organism has an instinctive revulsion against anything that threatens its life. By trying to stop Trump, Ben Shapiro and other Jewish pundits are placing themselves in front of a tidal wave of white nationalism.

Until the 1960s, Jews got along pretty nicely in the South. Then some Jews started to catch heat from the KKK and related organizations. Why? Because some Jews started pushing for black rights and black votes. When Jews put themselves in the way of white interests, some whites fought back. If a group started harming Jews and Jewish autonomy and Jewish identity, would not Jews fight back? Proud whites care as much about white civilization (aka America until recently) as identifying Jews care about their Judaism.

If a white guy walks into a black area and starts yelling anti-black epithets, he’s likely to get hurt. If a non-Muslim walks into a Muslim area and starts yelling anti-Muslim epithets, he’s likely to get hurt. When Jews hurl abuse at the white identity movement, and at any white who wants to have freedom of association, then those Jews are asking to be hurt. You can’t defecate on other people’s culture and expect there will be no consequences for your foul behavior.

Most Orthodox Jews are going to vote for the Republican nominee, whether it is Trump or not.

Ben Shapiro thinks there is a vast untapped well of anti Jewish hatred in the United States just waiting to be set free by Donald Trump. He extrapolates from the anti-Jewish tweets her receives to think this attitude is widespread. I would say this more likely represents Shapiro’s fear that on some level what he promotes politically is not in the best interest of wide swathes of the American people, and his concern is that they are wise to him.

Ben Shapiro writes:

I do not believe Donald Trump is an anti-Semite. His daughter Ivanka underwent an orthodox conversion to Judaism; he relies on her heavily for advice, according to all sources. But there is no question that a disquieting number of Trump supporters hate Jews as Jews. I have criticized President Obama in blunt fashion; I have defended Israel’s right to self-defense against the Palestinians consistently; I have bashed Ron Paul. I have never received the amount of anti-Semitic hate I currently do each day for the crime of criticizing The Great Trump.

Here’s a taste from yesterday alone:

The Daily Stormer, a neo-Nazi site with an entire vertical labeled “Jewish Problem” and another labeled “Race War,” has dedicated article after article to little old “Christ-Killing Kike Shapiro,” complete with pasted-on Nazi-style Jewish star. 4chan is chock full of threads questioning my ethnicity and my evil Jewish plans for world domination – all of which involve stopping Trump.

It’s not just me, of course. Jake Tapper of CNN now says he’s received anti-Semitic tweets “all day.” My friend Bethany Mandel, another orthodox Jew who opposes Trump, just bought herself a gun out of fear of unhinged Trump supporters. John Podhoretz of Commentary says he receives tweets consistently from “literally neo-Nazi White supremacists, all anonymous…I don’t think I can attribute being a supporter of Trump to being a validator or an expresser of these opinions, but something was let loose by him.” Noah Rothman of Commentary tweets, “It never ends. Blocking doesn’t help either. They have lists, on which I seem to find myself.”

This isn’t Trump’s fault. Politicians often have supporters they can’t stand and don’t control. But one thing is Trump’s fault: Trump has been reaching out to these supporters. They feel empowered by his rise not merely because they agree with his policies, but because of the language Trump uses and the people with whom he associates.

This week, Trump infamously refused to denounce the Ku Klux Klan and David Duke on national television when asked to do so by Jake Tapper of CNN, although he had done just that two days before (Trump later claimed there was something wrong with his earpiece, an obvious and blatant lie). Rush Limbaugh rightly pointed out, “Maybe [Trump’s] nervous after that debate. Maybe he’s worried. The polls don’t indicate it.  Maybe he’s worried that Cruz and Rubio are gaining on him, and he doesn’t want to tick off anybody that might vote for him.”

And while Trump claims that he doesn’t want to take moral sides between the Israelis and the Palestinians for purposes of dealmaking, there’s another possible explanation: he doesn’t want to look like a “cuck” for Israel. The same day as Trump’s KKK debacle, Louis Farrakhan told Chicago’s Mosque Maryam that Trump “is the only member who has stood in front of the Jewish community, and said I don’t want your money. Any time a man can say to those who control the politics of America, ‘I don’t want your money,’ that means you can’t control me. And they cannot afford to give up control of the presidents of the United States.” Farrakhan’s comments specifically refer to Trump’s speech before the Republican Jewish Coalition in December in which he suggested to a roomful of Jews, “you’re not going to support me because I don’t want your money…I’m a negotiator, like you folks…Is there anyone in this room who doesn’t negotiate deals? Probably more than any room I’ve ever spoken.” He added, “I don’t know if Israel has the commitment to make [peace].”

The association between Trump supporters and anti-Semitism is not entirely Trump’s fault, but it isn’t pure coincidence. Trump could do a lot to fight the anti-Semitism within his support base. But he won’t. After all, that might be construed as “politically correct,” as opposed to non-vulgar (as I’ve explained before, there is a major difference between the two).  And it’s more important to be construed by terrible people as “politically incorrect” than it is to be a decent human being.

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Israel Is Not Part Of The Middle East?

Posted on March 1, 2016 by Luke Ford

Israel has had more than its share of e-commerce successes. The Arab world, by contrast, is backward.

REPORT:

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Souq.com, an online retailer based in the United Arab Emirates, said on Monday that it had raised $275 million from international investors. It was a vote of confidence for digital commerce in the Middle East, which has made little headway compared with elsewhere.

Souq, the largest e-commerce company in the Middle East, was founded in 2005 on an eBay-like online auction model, but it subsequently evolved into more of an Amazon-style set-price retailer. It has been a rare success story in a region where online businesses face logistical problems, political challenges, stifling bureaucracy and regulations that vary greatly from country to country.

Souq’s latest round of funding included money from the New York-based investment firm Tiger Global Management, as well as from Standard Chartered Private Equity and the International Finance Corporation, which is an arm of the World Bank.

Souq, which means market in Arabic, did not provide details on what the funding round meant for its overall valuation, and it has not released details on its annual sales or profit. The $275 million funding round was, however, the largest ever disclosed by a technology start-up in the Middle East and North Africa, according to Wamda, a research firm based in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates.

The reason the Arab world produces little technological innovation is that Arabs have an average IQ of around 85, that is just 15 points above retarded and is the same as African-Americans. African-mMericans don’t produce a ton of technology either.

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Bill Burr on the Illuminati, Bilderberg, and Trump

Posted on February 29, 2016 by Luke Ford

Nov. 15, 2015:

Conan: “Donald Trump. Do you think a businessman like Trump has a chance to be president?”

Bill: “No, because nobody would work with him. Republicans and Democrats would be babies and they would pout because they’re bought and owned and it’s like how come this guy is free and can say what he wants? I’ve enjoyed the hell out of him. I wish more politicians would say what they’re thinking.”

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Hysteria About Donald Trump

Posted on February 29, 2016 by Luke Ford

I guess by running an increasingly out-of-the-closet gay teenager, the Republicans think they are expanding the tent with Rubio.

Are any of us really surprised that Rubio is fantasizing about his opponent’s penis?

If there’s a breakaway party, why not call it the Jewpublican party?

I bet this new overtly Neocon, tax-cuts for the rich, pro-immigration party is going to attract LOADS of votes. Trump must be TERRIFIED!

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The End Of Conservatism

Posted on February 29, 2016 by Luke Ford

Comments to Steve Sailer:

* Was all this David-Duke-KKK stuff the ‘atomic bomb’ meant for Trump?

* … and all it took was a savvy and quick-witted, independently wealthy, independently famous, uninhibited billionaire reality TV star willing to finance his own campaign and with a gift for using the new media to thwart the old one. Who says the system’s rigged?

The Aryan Vulgarian is forcing the mainstream political class to finally have to take some shots a little bit rather than assume they get to just dish them out for decade after decade. This is happening now because of Trump but it’s much bigger than just the Republican Party in the US or even the whole of counterfeit conservatism throughout the Anglosphere.

I almost feel sorry for these pundits and consultants who were sure they were famous because they were the smartest people in the country, rather than because they worked for the guys with a media network and knew how to play the game of kiss up and kick down on TV.

These guys have had a scare put into them so, if Trump’s campaign fails, these mainstream conservatives will join with the social justice warriors to crack down on so-called internet hate and domestic terrorism. Their Trotskyite side will be turned on the rest of us, rather than just on people in faraway countries. That’s why Trump has to go all the way now.

* Drudge and Breitbart are nearly single issue now. Trump has shown that being right on immigration means you can be wrong from their perspective on everything else. It’s an open question where this all goes from here.

* I used to think that I was a Republican and a conservative. No longer. This election season made me realize I’m neither. Maybe just an American realist. I’m embarrassed when I think that I once had subscriptions to TNR, First Things, et al., and used to give money to conservative groups. Fuck that, I now hate the conservative establishment with a red-hot passion and want nothing but doom upon them. For me it’s Trump or nothing. Never, ever again.

President Calvin Coolidge: “The business of America is business.”

Marco Rubio: “Donald Trump is a con-man.”

Robert Kraft, billionaire owner of the Patriots: “Donald Trump is a financial genius.” (7/20/2015, TMZ)

Marco Rubio: “Donald Trump’s not a good businessman.”

Billionaire business titans who have known Trump for decades, have spoken to Trump’s business acumen, and support Trump for President:
Carl Icahn
Steve Wynn
Phil Ruffin
Elie Hirschfeld

* I can’t help recommending Anne Applebaum’s Twitter feed as a great source of just this sort of impotent rage and hand flapping. Because she and her husband have their thumbs in pies on both sides of the Atlantic, her tweets are a one-stop shop for those of us looking for news on the collapse of this lousy “end of history” era.

* Trump derangement syndrome. Half this self-important loon’s tweets are about Trump being a Brownshirt.

* David Frum writes: As the governor of Florida, Bush had cut taxes and balanced budgets. He’d challenged unions and championed charter schools. At the same time, Bush passionately supported immigration liberalization. The central event in his life history was his reinvention as an honorary Latino American when he married a Mexican woman, Columba Garnica de Gallo. He spoke Spanish at home. He converted to Catholicism. He sought his fortune with a Cuban American business partner. In his most quotable phrase, he described illegal immigration as an “act of love.”

Bush’s update of Conservatism Classic had made him a hit with the party’s big donors. He had won accolades from Karl Rove (“the deepest thinker on our side”) and Arthur Brooks, the president of the American Enterprise Institute (“a top-drawer intellect”). Yet within five weeks of his formal declaration of candidacy on June 15, Bush’s campaign had been brutally rejected by the GOP rank and file.

Something has changed in American politics since the Great Recession. The old slogans ring hollow. The insurgent candidates are less absurd, the orthodox candidates more vulnerable. The GOP donor elite planned a dynastic restoration in 2016. Instead, it triggered an internal class war.

The premise of the past few thousand words is that the Republican donor elite failed to impose its preferred candidate on an unwilling base in 2015 for big and important reasons. But maybe that premise is wrong. Maybe Jeb Bush has just been a bad candidate with a radioactive last name. Maybe the same message and platform would have worked fine if espoused by a fresher and livelier candidate. Such is the theory of Marco Rubio’s campaign. Or—even if the donor message and platform have troubles—maybe $100 million in negative ads can scorch any potential alternative, enabling the donor-backed candidate to win by default.

Perhaps some concession to the disgruntled base is needed. That’s the theory of the Cruz campaign and—after a course correction—also of the Christie campaign. Instead of 2013’s “Conservatism Classic Plus Immigration Liberalization,” Cruz and Christie are urging “Conservatism Classic Plus Immigration Enforcement.” True, Cruz’s carefully selected words on immigration leave open the possibility of guest-worker programs or other pro-employer reforms after a burst of border enforcement. But Cruz and Christie have seen the reaction to Donald Trump’s message, and appear to appreciate the need to at least seem to do something to redress the grievances of the Republican base.

Yet a narrow focus on immigration populism alone seems insufficient to raise Republican hopes. Trump shrewdly joins his immigration populism to trade populism. On the Democratic side, Bernie Sanders’s opposition to open borders is logically connected to his hopes for a Democratic Socialist future: His admired Denmark upholds high labor standards along with some of the world’s toughest immigration rules. Severed from a larger agenda, however—as Mitt Romney tried to sever the issue in 2012—immigration populism looks at best like pandering, and at worst like identity politics for white voters. In a society that is and always has been multiethnic and polyglot, any national party must compete more broadly than that.

Which brings us to …

Option 3: True Reform

Admittedly, this may be the most uncongenial thought of them all, but party elites could try to open more ideological space for the economic interests of the middle class. Make peace with universal health-insurance coverage: Mend Obamacare rather than end it. Cut taxes less at the top, and use the money to deliver more benefits to working families in the middle. Devise immigration policy to support wages, not undercut them. Worry more about regulations that artificially transfer wealth upward, and less about regulations that constrain financial speculation. Take seriously issues such as the length of commutes, nursing-home costs, and the anticompetitive practices that inflate college tuition. Remember that Republican voters care more about aligning government with their values of work and family than they care about cutting the size of government as an end in itself. Recognize that the gimmick of mobilizing the base with culture-war outrages stopped working at least a decade ago.

Such a party would cut health-care costs by squeezing providers, not young beneficiaries. It would boost productivity by investing in hard infrastructure—bridges, airports, water-treatment plants. It would restore Dwight Eisenhower to the Republican pantheon alongside Ronald Reagan and emphasize the center in center-right.

* Well it’s about time we turn our back on Frum and the rest of his “Unpatriotic Conservatives.” Thanks to them we’re bankrupt and the Middle East is burning. And he wonders why his ilk is so hated.

* When is Frum going to denounce the mainstream republicans as unpatriotic? Recall his denunciation of Patrick Buchanan and others who did not support the Iraq War as the unpatriotic conservatives. I would like to see him write something similar about these GOP turncoats.

* Time to get over Frum’s nasty 2003 article in National Review [on unpatriotic conservatives who oppose the invasion of Iraq]. For the past 5 years or more, his has undertaken the difficult and thankless task of selling immigration restriction to elite centrist types.

His Twitter feed is full of him hitting back on attacks on Trump:

And he’s a top main-streamer of HBDsphere ideas, for example:

Steve.

Frum.

* Trump’s rise would not have been possible without the visibly inept and corrupt GOP elites. They spent much of their credibility on neocon foreign policy and donor-friendly domestic policy, and turned our to have nothing to offer most of their voters besides ineffectual rage about social policies like gay marriage and abortion. (Their opposition hasn’t been effective enough to stop either of those things, but has done well at raising money and keeping religious in line when it came to support for bombing more peasants or bailouts for the banks or lowering taxes at the top.

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Europe Got Very Interesting In 2015

Posted on February 29, 2016 by Luke Ford

Steve Sailer writes: To me, Europe suddenly got very interesting around January 3, 2015 with word of the imminent publication of Houellebecq’s novel Submission. Within a week, Houellebecq was on the cover of Charlie Hebdo and much of the staff was murdered. The Camp of the Saints built all spring, with Hillary-wrecked Libya as the prime leak. Then, suddenly in late summer, came Dr. Merkel’s own goal against the German people. More memorable incidents followed in Paris and Cologne.

The endurance of the Trump Phenomenon has something to do with the one car crash of the Anti-Trump, Dr. Merkel: experienced, boring, time-tested … and yet suddenly she turned viciously on her own people and was praised for it by everybody respectable until Paris and Cologne.

COMMENTS:

* This brought to mind all of the recent articles about objections to Trump from Mexican politicians. Interesting, but what does that have to do with the decision of Americans about who their next president will be?

It seems in many countries we are reaching a fork in the road. What is the purpose of a state? Is Germany for the welfare of Germans? Or is it also for looking after refugees (granted, the plight of many of these people is tragic?) What is the purpose of the US state? To look after the welfare of US citizens? Or to also accommodate as many immigrants as manage to enter the country, legally or illegally?

This will be decided in the US in November, which makes it a critical election.

* A woman who has clawed/is clawing her way up to the leadership of her country is congenitally unable to admit she’s ever been wrong. Female leaders are a lot worse about this than the men who have held the same jobs. It’s a female trait made worse by the rock-solid arrogance and belief in yourself that you need to compete in politics. Hillary Clinton has never admitted she’s been wrong, Margaret Thatcher never admitted that she’d been wrong, and I could go on and on. Indira Gandhi, Evita, Isabel Peron, Golda Meir, etc.

* Culturally left wing Germans including Merkel want to change Germany by making it a mixed race society. Through race mixing Germany can become homogeneous with the rest of Europe by becoming more mediocre. It will be the end to the Nordicism that they’ve learned to hate so much.

* The Trump campaign emailed reporters the following statement hailing Sessions’ endorsement:

Today Donald J. Trump received the endorsement of Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions. Senator Sessions is widely recognized as the nation’s most highly respected official on the issue of illegal immigration.

Mr. Trump stated, “I am deeply honored to have the endorsement of Senator Jeff Sessions, leader of congressional conservatives. He has been called the Senate’s indispensable man and the gold standard. He led the fight against the Gang of Eight, against Obama’s trade deal, against Obama’s judges, and for American sovereignty. He has stood up to special interests as few have. There is no more respected man in Congress and we are closely aligned on many issues, including trade and illegal immigration, and I am proud to consider Jeff Sessions an advisor, friend and ally.”

Mr. Trump and Senator Sessions surprised the massive crowd at the frontrunner’s Alabama rally just days before Super Tuesday Primary contest.

Senator Sessions added, “I am thrilled today to offer my endorsement of Donald J. Trump for President. This election is our last chance to save U.S. sovereignty and to end the domination of the political establishment over the interests of working Americans. Trump alone has rejected the donor class, defending America’s jobs and wages from open borders, uncontrolled immigration and the massive Trans-Pacific Partnership that will cede U.S. authority to foreign powers. Trump’s trade and immigration plans will revitalize our shrinking middle class, keeping jobs and wealth and income inside the United States of America. Trump understands that a nation must always place the interests of its own people first.”

Senator Sessions continued, “We are nearing fast the point of no return. The people are hurting. Their wages are declining. Their schools are overburdened. Their hospitals are stretched past the breaking point. Crime is up, and community confidence is down. Americans of all backgrounds and ethnicities, immigrant and US-born, are crying out for leadership that puts their needs first, that takes care of those living and dreaming here today, leadership that understands that there is no constituency other than the American constituency. Mr. Trump is that leader.”

* I think the contrast between Merkel and Putin worked in Trump’s favour. Merkel looked like a fool while Putin looked like the man with a plan, especially on Syria. All the craziness coming out of Paris, Cologne and a dozen other places in Europe only added to the sense that the West’s leadership has no clue what it’s doing and someone new is worth a try.

* Merkel has been bad on pretty much ALL the big issues:

Shutting down nuclear reactors after Fukushima was flat out stupid (even if you don’t believe in anthropogenic climate change).

On Greece she wasn’t the worst, but she should’ve done more to reign in the macroeconomic madness of Herr Schauble and the myopic creditors.

And now on immigration, an absolute disaster.

I love and respect Germany, but I’m afraid its fate is to find ever new ways to destroy Europe.

* Most PC Oscars ever, where sodomy and bardashery were celebrated, World War T was waged (“gender confirmation surgery”), blacks’ rioting was encouraged, open borders were affirmed, and global warming was sung.

* Chavez famously had some sort of TV show every week during his rule where he would extemporaneously speak for hours. I wonder if a President Trump will have something similar. Trump loves going on diatribes on TV against his enemies.

* The generous explanation is that immigration is the easiest way to shed the Holocaust burden. At some level Merkel and many other Germans just want to live in a normal country and not have to be confronted with the Nazi past every 5 minutes. One way to do this is to make Germany a multiracial society full of people whose ancestors weren’t there. Mesut Özil and Sami Khedira can’t be shamed with Nazi guilt. A Germany full of Özils and Khediras can start swinging its weight around Europe and the world again with a little more swagger. I can sympathize a little even if I think the policy is wrong headed and naive.

* Then the question becomes: will taking in refugees actually relieve Germany of the Holocaust Burden?

Dr. Merkel should consider that it’s not clear that defeating Hitler in the biggest war of all time has fully relieved America, Russia, and Britain of the Holocaust Burden.

* An economist would simply apply a holocaust/benefit analysis.

* If you start counting with Charlemagne, the Third Reich constitutes 1% of the history of the German nation.

Another war on the 1%.

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Chris Rock’s Oscar Monologue

Posted on February 29, 2016 by Luke Ford

Comments to Steve Sailer:

* Did anyone just see the Chris Rock Oscar monologue? Holy crap, I was not expecting that all! It had some of the most “HBD-influenced” commentary I have ever seen in a mainstream media event. I never thought I would hear that Rocky/Star Wars joke on TV! Are we living through the death throes of PC?

* I wonder how this angst-ridden, American racial drama plays out around the world. American blacks want to see more movies with blacks but the world wide box office probably doesn’t.

I’m getting pretty fatigued with all this diversity being shoved into my face everywhere I go.

* I liked it because:

1. Rock explicitly stated that “lack of diversity” isn’t quite as bad as your grandmother getting lynched.

2. It’s always nice to see preachy left-wingers get called out on their massive hypocrisy.

3. Once again, “diversity” only meant “black”. I’m sure Chris Rock was bummed by the lack of Latino and Asian nominees. But he wasn’t bummed enough to mention it.

* Lynching? Something like 3500 blacks were lynched in the history of the US, and about 1500 whites were lynched too, so it’s hardly a black experience. Also, rape? White men simply don’t rape black women, probably due to black women not being all that attractive. We all know the statistics.

* I’m getting tired of paying for what I expect to be entertainment, and then finding out I’ve paid to receive a moral lecture about what a shitty person I am for wanting my children to have a future. No more. I refuse to support anything that is based on the promotion of minorities or feminism.

It would seem that the decades of propaganda seeking to convince me that I’m a racist have worked.

* Hispanics, Asians and others are not complaining. The way blacks carry on you would think 50% of the population claims it is being cheated, not 12%. It’s crazy and they better get their licks in now because they will get lots less attention after January 20th. I’ll bet 50% of blacks are embarrassed by this gaudy, ghettoish displaying, preening and bitching that never ends.

* I’m happy to watch movies with Samuel L. Jackson or Dwayne Johnson. I also like movies with Matt Damon or Harrison Ford. I suspect most blacks feel the same way: we want to see interesting — or at least fun — movies.

* NYT 1998: Last year ”Seinfeld,” the top-rated television show in white households, ranked 50th in African-American homes, according to Nielsen Media Research, while the comedy ”Between Brothers,” No. 1 in black households, ranked 112th among whites.

Similarly, according to Nielsen, in the first two months of the current prime-time season, ”The Steve Harvey Show,” a comedy, ranked No. 1 in black households, but 118th in white households, while ”Friends,” the No. 1 comedy and No. 2 show overall in white households, ranked just 91st for blacks.

* Ah yes. The 1960s. A hotbed of lynchings. All those grandmothers swinging from trees in 1962. So tragic.

* What no one wants to acknowledge is that Chinese and other non-American people, who make up a huge slice of Hollywood film viewership, don’t really want to see blacks. Just like most Americans don’t really want to see aboriginals in Australian films.

* Like the swan in Clooney’s ass, I have an impacted ass full of getting lectured on racism. Those cucks sat quietly and took their medicine.

* Who cares what one whiny rich lefty entertainer said to a bunch of other whiny rich lefty entertainers at their annual lefty industry award show?

The Oscars are over. The tokenism will burn it down, which is why, 10-15 years, writers will lament how the Oscars “aren’t glamorous” anymore and have somehow become “cliche” and “déclassé” all other sorts of euphemisms for complaining about affirmative action taking over.

Pass the popcorn, though. I love to watch a good disaster flick in the middle of the destruction. Especially when the players so richly deserve their fate.

* I thought Mr. Rock’s monologue made a lot of sense. It certainly wasn’t the idiotic rant I’ve come to expect from other Negroes put in his position. That said, there has been a mutual drifting apart of the races in this country. One place it shows up is in the utterly different racial tastes in movies, television, radio, and music. I don’t think there is any way to heal this rift. An official and detailed separate but equal policy is probably the best bet at this point.

* The portion of the Oscars I watched was a continuance loop of pet project grievances. Climate change, sexual harassment, immigration, whatever the acronym for homosexuals, etc is now, and, of course, RACISM. An industry circle jerk has morphed into an ideological circle jerk. Hard to watch before, like a train wreck now – hard to turn away it’s so bad.

A DNC infomercial with some gold statues and cool grab bags thrown in for good measure.

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