Luke Ford

Comments at Steve Sailer:

* I wonder who the Dems will have on deck for 2020? To continue with the baseball analogy, Clinton’s lock on the Dem power structure the last few years has meant their farm system hasn’t produced much presidential talent. Sanders is obviously too old, and Kaine has proven himself hopelessly uncharismatic. Most likely the front runners will Be Elizabeth Warren and Cory Booker.

* The White base (overall) did not come out for Trump any more than it came out for Romney, perhaps less in absolute numbers. From First Read:

“Trump’s popular vote total (59 million and counting) is going to be similar to Mitt Romney’s in 2012 (61 million), but Clinton’s total (and equal 59 million — she just over took Trump in the popular vote) is going to be far short of Obama’s 66 million in 2012. Those are 5-7 million Obama votes that didn’t go for Clinton. In the eight years of Obama, Democrats won big the two times he was on the ballot (2008, 2012), but they lost big the times he wasn’t on the ballot (2010, 2014, 2016).”

Clinton, the stumbling, sad, old White lady, simply couldn’t get out the same number of black votes as Obama. Absent an exciting reason to vote (a black candidate), an alarmingly large portion of blacks couldn’t care less. It will be interesting to see whether Democrats (with all those Whites in leadership positions) can adjust to that reality.

* The Clinton ‘coalition of the fringes’–blacks, Latinos, with a sprinkling of naive Millenials–clearly can’t be bothered to get off their arses and vote.

They’re the coalition of the chillin’.

* I thought I would enjoy the gnashing of the teeth of the holier-than-thou, but my Facebook feed is filled with such wailing and despair that it’s no fun at all. Many of my friends are really heartbroken, kind of like when your team loses in the final, but with such anger and such outrageous predictions of disaster… It’s just depressing. I hope they come to their senses soon.

And I hope heads will roll in media and entertainment for being so wrong and so misleading and so partisan for so long, but I haven’t seen much self-criticism, and of course I know they will hold on to their power with all their might, even in the face of manifest absurdity and ridicule. But I have new hope… Anything could happen now!

* There should be a day or two for celebration. Then it will be time to remember that the people who were defeated last night are the most spiteful, vindictive, unethical, amoral people in the history of the world. They will fight any campaign promises Trump tries to fulfill at every turn. They will do everything they can to derail his agenda. We can never trust them to act in good faith or put the interests of the country ahead of their own.

* I’d still be careful. The other side is as angry and embittered as we are euphoric. There are still many powerful forces lined up against Trump and everything that he represents.

Trump’s election is a major victory, but it is the beginning of the fight, not the end. We’re roughly at the Trenton stage of the Second American Revolution.

* Will Steve finally get the acknowledgement and fame he deserves for the Sailer Strategy?

Prepare to be deluged with the fallacy that this happened because “too many Americans aren’t ready for a female prez.”

Steve or Derb merit a fat book deal to write The Anatomy of the Alt Right. Steve could write under the pseudonym “They”–as in “as they say.” A suggested cover: kids in science class dissecting a frog.

I’m still stunned that My Precious tumbled into the lava. A liberal I know admits she’s slightly relieved she won’t have to listen to HRC shouting State of the Union addresses.

Will HRC’s health now deteriorate to the point that even the AP reporter standing right in front of her must acknowledge it?

When it became clear even to sympathetic moderates that BLM=DDN (“Dint Do Nuffin”), HRC missed her SSM (Sista Soldja Moment).

A mom just texted me saying, “maybe now I won’t have to talk about transgender bathrooms with my preschool kids.”

* Only question I have now is whether Jeffrey Goldberg and all the other media shills who have spent the past year sucking up to Hillary are going to get that exclusive access they have been angling for.

* Now the work begins to hold Trump’s feet to the fire.

1. Kick out illegals
2. Cut immigration 90%
3. Built the wall.
4. Defund all sanctuary cities
5. Appoint the special prosecutor for Hillary/Comey/Obama
6. Slap down new tariffs

And then, on his second day in office….

* Trump ran against BOTH parties(GOP support was lukewarm at best and very hostile from many quarters), all the newspapers, all the TV networks(even the hostiles on Fox), Wall Street, Hollywood, the entire government complex, the entire intellectual class, the richest oligarchs and corporations, all the polling data, the neocons, the military-industrial-complex, the globalist elites of all nations, and etc etc… yet he won.

Surely the most epic win in American Politics. Even more than the 48 election.

In a way, the rise of Trump is a sign of universal malaise and corruption at all levels of a society. A normal people of a normal nation should not elect someone like Trump. Most of the elite’s accusations and condemnations about him are correct. And the fact that so many Americans voted for him means that their tolerance level for sleaze, vulgarity, and crudeness has reached unprecedented levels.

BUT, the fact is that the elites are far more corrupt, sleazy, craven, hypocritical, destructive, dishonest, nasty, vicious, contemptuous, supremacist, entitled, and arrogant. They have lost the right to pass judgment on anyone.
They created all the mess around the world with unnecessary wars and with unprecedented looting of nations at home ans abroad. They destroyed the lives of millions.
They exploited the most cynical politics like the BLM movement.
They made homomania into a new religion.
And speaking of vulgarity, it was the Lib elites that filled American eyes and ears with trashy talk shows, porny music, the likes of Dunham and Cyrus, violent TV shows, tattoo fashions, etc.
It is the elites who showered praise on the likes of Emma Sulkowicz and pushed the vile narrative of the UVA rape case. For them to support Lena Dunham’s candidate while calling foul on Trump was rich coming from them.

So, US is no longer a normal country, and a man like Trump could win simply by shouting that the globo-emperor has no clothes.

Against massive corruption and collusion, only a man with own history of corruption and collusion could win. In a diseased world, the idea that the pure could win(or even exist) is no longer believable. The only believable sell was that a man like Trump has built up the immunities to withstand the diseases of the system.

* Two email responses to the election received from liberal, social justice acquaintances. I take no joy in anyone’s personal pain, but these responses seem to clearly display the moral and intellectual superiority, arrogance, conceit, and condescension that provoked rhetorically abused Americans to reject Hillary and embrace Trump.

From local Unitarian-Universalist Church

The nation is deeply divided, and in that division, wounds have been opened and new pain cast from all sides. For many, this is a time in which our values look to be repudiated by the larger culture. Come and be with one another. Light candles. Sit in the sanctuary that holds the named and unnamed joys and sorrows of our shared life.

From the Social Justice Center at my state university:

In light of the results of the election, TM is providing a space tonight to allow folks to process, heal, and grieve the implications of this election, and to also find methods of collective action. If you need a space to process your fear, anger, or sadness, join us in the Center for Social Justice Education and LGBT Communities.

Today, the Cultural Center Collaborative is hosting And The Winner Is? Post-Election Debrief Lunch. They’ll have cultural comfort foods, drinks, guided meditative activities, hands-on craft activities and most importantly, community.

Finally, the following is a list of help-lines for you or anyone you know. Many also provide online chats: National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, Crisis Text Line, Transgender Lifeline.

Please, take care of yourselves today and moving forward. If you need any kind of support, the Center for Social Justice Education & LGBT Communities, the Office for Violence Prevention & Victim Assistance, and many other organizations are here for you. If you witness any incidents of bias on campus, please submit a report to the Bias Incident Response Team.

* Even last night, the pundit – you know, the ones who were clueless the entire campaign – were trying to spin the election as a rejection of Hillary and not an acceptance of Trump’s ideas, i.e. we don’t need to do anything about immigration.

In fact, I watched for an hour and never heard the word immigration. They’ll never quit.

* Wash Po has an article up about “Ada” – the Clinton campaign’s super secret analytics tool which dictated campaign strategy. The plan was that today, after the campaign was over, the Clinton campaign would reveal its Wunderwaffe that made all prior analytics tools look like children’s toys and enabled Hillary to achieve a resounding victory. The best laid plans, etc.

The ignorant reporter keeps calling it an “algorithm” but clearly it was a custom software package. What it did was take all the polling and other data and run 400,000 Monte Carlo simulated elections every day to see where Hillary was winning and losing with fine granularity. Based on this, they would allocate campaign resources where needed. Ada understood that PA was a battleground and thus the heavy deployment of forces there but it completely missed Wisconsin.

The problem with any computer simulation is the old data maxim – “garbage in, garbage out”. The best software in the world is no good unless you are feeding it good data. When the pollster Shawnikra called up Farmer Bill in rural Wisconsin and aksed him who he was voting for, he was’t going to tell her the truth.

* Over at The Atlantic, as well as in the “safe space” known as “The Atlantic Discussions” they are still calling Trump and his supporters “racist, bigoted, misogynist, intolerant, uneducated, angry” and more, while relentlessly patting themselves on the back.

* Back in 2004 on a well-known message board I got on the bad side of some leftists. Some I’d trusted with my personal info posted my real name and even my street address.

Lesson learned. Don’t ever let your guard down with left-wingers. Modern liberalism really does share a lot of traits with some of the more malevolent personality disorders.

Leftists tried to silence conservatives with accusations of racism after Obama was eelected. Today they are accusing Trump and his supporters of fascism.

Leftists have no sense of fair play, no grace, no humility and no decency. We would do well to remember that.

* Weeks ago I began predicting that we would see MSM pundits crying on television late Tuesday night or in the early morning hours of Wednesday. And lo it came to pass.

The depression at my (liberal) place of work is palpable as is the gloom and bitterness emanating from MSM outlets this morning. Some places are even seeing near riots by the spoiled snowflake children of the nation’s progs.

I doubt that the reaction of Trump supporters would have been as extreme. The main reason is that Clinton supporters and other progs have marinated for their entire lives in the USA’s left-wing echo chamber. (Please pardon the mixed metaphor!) Everything they heard convinced them that a Clinton victory was a done deal and that only despicable, near sub-human dregs, clinging to guns and weird versions of Christianity, in the remotest backwaters of “fly-over country” could possibly vote for Trump. They were spared any discussion of the real issues behind this election and of the Clintons’ dangerously inept and corrupt history in the public sphere. As a result progs suffered a severe shock on election day.

Trump supporters, like myself, OTOH, cannot avoid hearing from both ends of the political spectrum; unavoidably ubiquitous Clinton propaganda twenty-four-seven from the MSM and carefully sought out doses of reality from alternative news sources. We all realized that Trump was doing much better than reported but were inured to the fact that this might not be good enough. We now thank God that it was.

* The idea that Hillary would take us down a path in which we might easily come into direct confrontation with Russia over Syria seriously concerned me.

Trump, while hyper-reactive to personal insults, seems cognizant of, and ultimately responsive to, practical consequences. I think this is just inherent to how he succeeded as a businessman.

But Hillary never seems to learn a lesson. How could Iraq, and then Libya not be major lessons for her? How could she fail to see that taking Assad down in Syria would very likely have the same unintended — but perfectly easy to predict — results?

She seems rigidly attached to her beliefs, determined always to “do something”, and incapable of backing out of an approach that’s turning out badly. (See Merkel for another example.)

The scariest person of all in charge of the nuclear codes is someone with an ideological or political agenda who is utterly rigid. She wouldn’t back out of a confrontation with Putin because she had it in her head that she was on the right of history, and he was on the wrong side. After all, didn’t he oppose gay rights? Why back down from an irredeemable deplorable?

Ideologues kill.

* It was precious to watch Wolf Blitzer go to pieces as the results came in, practically begging John King to work his WonderWall to find pockets of resistance where the Forces of Darkness might find more last minute votes to swing things to Hillary. He was practically hysterical. King, to his credit, remained somewhat balanced and rational throughout until he finally went into hiding.

* The real goal for the Trump presidency should be to destroy the institutions that the left has marched through.

Sue the press for libel. Jail high ranking politicians like Clinton for corruption. Expose and destroy the sickos in Hollywood. All of this should be easily justifiable by enforcing existing laws that they have broken.

If he drains the swamp and exposes the ruling classes’s crimes that they surely have committed, he will have limitless political capital.

This won’t be easy though, and the establishment will fight back viciously. For the record, if anything should happen to Trump, I hereby declare that Donald Jr will be the heir to his movement, not Mike Pence.

I’m noticing guys in long-term slumps are waking up today and feeling a newfound burst of energy and determination to make their lives better. They’re no longer hopeless about America and about their lives.

Politico: Make Yourself Great Again!

A group of millennial bros find salvation in the teachings of Donald J. Trump.

A Jewish friend writes: Dear Luke,

I have many thoughts and opinions about the election. Here they are in no particular order. In October 2015 I wrote to a friend of mine in Israel that there were three reasons for Trump’s appeal: (1) immigration, (2) he did not appear to be bought and paid for by the big money interests who backed his opponents and (3) rejection of neo-con advisors and neo-con war and intervention.

I still stand by that although in flipping through the networks most of the pundits and anchors didn’t get into this.

Although Obama’s popularity is currently higher than Clinton’s or Trump’s, no one noted that in the two mid-term elections, Obama’s policies were soundly rejected. The 2010 election brought in big Democratic losses because of the way the Affordable Care Act was rammed through. The 2014 election can be seen as a rejection of the whole Obama agenda and in particular the attempt to enact amnesty and to reject the administrations sympathy for Black protests and Black Lives Matter.

Neither Obama nor the Democrats, nor for that matter the mainstream Republican establishment, paid heed to this.

This is the reason that Trump was able to seize on immigration. He ran against 16 other Republican presidential aspirants and all of them (with the exception of Ted Cruz) embraced amnesty and embraced a neo-con foreign policy. As Mickey Kaus pointed out, if the Republicans wanted to defeat Trump all they had to do was have one of their favorites – Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio, John Kasich – take on the mantle of immigration restrictionists and enforcement of existing laws before amnesty and they would have preempted Trump. But they couldn’t do that, either out of principle or because this position was anathema to their backers.

This election did much to undercut the understanding of how political campaigns should run. Jeb Bush had $100 million dollars which he thought would both scare away challengers and buy the necessary advertising to defeat anyone who didn’t drop out. That money was spent with no return. Will any political consultant in the future be trusted by a candidate who can raise that kind of money? I don’t think so.

The pundits all seem to have opined from their bubble. Some reporters like Salena Zito of Pittsburgh did give a feeling of the depth of the Trump phenomenon. Others such as David Brooks saw there was something out there and that the aggrieved whites needed to be listened to, yet he continued to write about them as snobbishly as ever, in the last week disparaging the gene pool of the Trump supporters. Others saw what was coming but were very careful about how they commented on it for fear of spoiling the narrative. Chris Matthews falls into this category.

The reality is that there are more persons out of the work force than ever before, that median incomes are down in actual dollar terms from where they were 20 years ago, that most Americans have no savings, that what savings they have earn a pitiful interest rate because the economy is so weak the Federal Reserve hasn’t raised interest rates, that life expectancy among whites is down, suicide is up, and deaths as a result of opiates and alcohol are way up.

Another interesting take away from the election is that voter suppression is a myth. Barack Obama said as much a couple of days ago when he said that despite any obstacles put in their way, anyone who really wants to will be able to cast a ballot. The Democrats had a huge edge in Get Out the Vote efforts. But this highlights a true weakness. The Democrats have played the identity card too far. But the coalition the Democrats put together did defeat McCain and Romney and almost defeated George W. Bush. Some of these groups that Steve Sailer refers to as “fringe” or as Larry Elder calls them “victocrats” apparently will not vote in significant numbers unless they are repeatedly contacted by the get out the vote personnel before the election and then a concerted effort including driving them to the polls takes place on election day (or for early balloting.)

What happened in this election is that these groups reliably turn out for the Democrats and vote for the Democratic candidate by an overwhelming percentage. The Democrats hadn’t been worried about the white vote because it was fragmented. This election because of the constant attack on whites and white privilege, along with the erosion of manufacturing jobs which has devastated so many small communities, along with the capture of so many entry level and low skilled jobs by illegal immigrants, along affirmative action hurting not only their own but their children’s school and job prospects, along with an administration that appeared to side with rioters over law abiding citizens as if those citizen’s “racism” excused the destruction of property and drop in property values caused by riots, led to the non-elite, non coastal white voters, who make up will over 40% of the national electorate, to view themselves as identity voters, see Trump as their champion and vote as a bloc. What is more significant is that these white voters didn’t need anyone to remind them that November 8 was election day or need anyone to drive them to the polls. This does not reflect well on those who only vote by virtue of the Democratic Get Out the Vote.

It is important to note that the vote was extremely tight in some states and Democrats will console themselves that demographic change is on their side. It is for this reason that Trump will have to place immigration enforcement as a very high priority. Trump has relied on Jeff Sessions and Steve Miller on illegal immigration and protection of American jobs. Some persons naively think Trump needs legislation to be able to enforce current immigration laws, but of course that is nonsense. He can put in e-verify, allow agents to institute deportation proceedings and enforce the border so that persons cannot come across, all without building a wall (although a wall was authorized when Hillary Clinton was a Senator)

In 2012 conservative bloggers thought they had successfully competed with the mainstream media which they perceived as backing Obama and unfairly criticizing Romney. The 2012 election showed that the main stream media retained sufficient power to swing an election.

This election shows the decline of the mainstream media influence and the rise of the internet regarding political campaigns.

The traditional media in the clearest possible terms demonstrated that there was no longer a distinction between news and editorial policy. That wall is gone and with it the credibility of main stream media reporters. Wikileaks only made it worse. I was watching CNN last night and every time Gloria Borger opened her mouth (and I have been aware of her as a reporter for at least 20 years and always thought she was a good) I kept going back to an email released where she mentioned to Podesta that she had just escaped a GOP hell.

I would not be surprised to see, after the outlets do some soul searching, a number of reporters either retired or reassigned to non political matters since their basic fairness has been called into question. If that doesn’t happen, readership and viewership will decline. Advertising dollars will wither away and there will be further media consolidation. But from this point forward at least half the electorate will no longer pay any attention to them outside sports and entertainment.

My personal viewpoint is that this election is important in order to reestablish the primacy of the rule of law and the principle that no man is above the law. This is why I find any teeth gnashing by Obama or his supporters about the eradication of any legacy he had by virtue of executive orders so satisfying. They violated constitutional principles when they were expedient setting a bad precedent. If Trump stops once he rescinds the orders he will be doing the country a great favor. If he issues his own executive orders then all we are seeing is continued precedent itching to be abused by either Trump or his successor.

Incidentally the same applies to enforcement of immigration law. Our current system rewards the rule breakers while making the law abiding wait in line. This is a complete reversal of how it should work.

So many of my Facebook friends and others are fearful of Trump. They think he is a fascist, a racist, and an anti-semite.

I have never thought this to be the case and have often taken issue with people who say or write these things without endorsing Trump or his policies.

Trump made a great acceptance speech yesterday, and what the traditional media had to say about it was that was a change in tone. Obviously they had not heard many of his speeches or read the transcripts. Trump has always said he wants America to work for everybody. He has reached out especially to the Black community. He had criticized Mexicans who come here illegally and said they include Rapists. This is seized upon as racist and xenophobic, despite the fact that in 1969 Mondale, Walter Reuther and Cesar Chavez marched at the border to protest illegal immigration. They were all union men and understood that illegal aliens undercut wages and bargaining position for American citizens.

In his 1995 state of the union address, Bill Clinton came out strongly against illegal immigration and the New York Times held to that view at least through 2000, so what has been the traditional liberal view on illegal immigration has become racist when espoused by Trump.

Apparently, it is now considered un-American and racist to think of protecting Americans from an influx of persons who want to enter the country illegally and to impose standards to make immigration be in the best interest of the American people as a whole.

As I wrote you earlier in the year, we will know much more about Trump based on his appointments. I think Obama has needlessly politicized and racialized the justice department. It looks like Trump is going to appoint Giuliani as his attorney general. This is not good since Giuliani actually has more authoritarian tendencies than Trump (which is not good in the chief law enforcement officer in the land) and rather than depoliticize the justice department, may politicize it in the other way. I wish Trump would break the cycle by having certain departments, especially the justice department operate in a non partisan way without a political or social justice agenda. We will have to see how Giuliani actually deals with department heads and what cases he chooses to prosecute.

The country is by and large governed not by legislators or the executive directly but by the administrative state. I doubt that Trump will change this by eliminating departments. But we will have a better idea when we see who he appoints to the hot button cabinet positions: Education since he has pledged to do away with common core and because Title IX is causing all the problems with schools having to adjudicate sexual harassment claims, Environmental protection agency, Interior and Agriculture because these all deal with public lands, oil leasing, endangered species, global warming. I presume that Trump will nominate more development oriented Cabinet secretaries and cut back on the regulations (often successful challenged, issued by the EPA). One kicker will be that Trump more than most presidents will be looking to enhance revenue. The federal government leases grazing rights, drilling rights, mining rights and timber rights often at a below cost basis. Trump might sell land or he might try to extract more revenue. Labor. Probably the most “radical” members of the cabinet become secretaries of labor. Right now its Thomas Perez. It was at one point Hilda Solis. Look for Trump to appoint a labor friendly secretary of labor who is not an extreme “leftist” and I don’t see him appointing a union busting Labor secretary despite the urging of the Paul Ryan wing of the party.

On the Supreme Court if you are concerned about a socially liberal Supreme court, than you probably dodged a bullet by electing Trump. Most liberals are concerned about the supreme court because it is the way that liberal social issues are enshrined in law after having been defeated legislatively or through referenda. Liberals seem to think that Roe v Wade will be reversed, same sex marriages will be banned under a Trump supreme court. I would bet a lot of money that doesn’t come to pass, because the right to abortion and same sex marriage are now so widely accepted. If you are concerned about first amendment rights and your constitutional protections in criminal matters, you had no better friend than Scalia. Liberals didn’t realize that Scalia was actually closer to liberal positions than the so called liberals. The liberal block on the courtt strongly defers to the executive branch and the administrative state, whereas the conservatives slightly less so. Both conservatives and liberals on the court usually side with businesses.

It is not clear who Trump would nominate. He put out a slate of conservative judges. I don’t think he will appoint them if he wants to do things administratively or through executive orders, because he will not want to risk those being successfully legally challenged. If he plans on governing as a prudential president and not push the envelope in using his powers, then he might appoint some really conservative justices along the lines of Scalia, Alito and Thomas.

Enough for now. Time will tell.

I have never been this happy.

Did the Torah learning I did in Trump’s merit make a difference?

Am I a bad man for enjoying all the tears today? Let them flow like a mighty river.

It’s like… the end of Shawshank Redemption.

First we go after the Tech giants who tried to rig this election. Then the MSM, Hollywood, Wall Street, academia, ADL, SPLC, SWC.

We must expel the Fifth Column in our midst before they completely displace us. This might be our last chance.

I’m glad we didn’t have to have a military coup.

Clinton only won the popular vote because Republicans in Dem strongholds like California and New York don’t bother to vote.

A friend says: “I attended a lecture at a big NY museum given by a top top pollster with a PhD from Princeton U. He laughingly assured everyone in the audience – all young white folks with excellent academic pedigrees – that Trump had no more than a 4% chance of wiinning, and that that was putting it charitably. To him I say FUCK YOU.”

* Wolf Blitzer keeps saying “A very sad scene here as John Podesta greets staffers…”. Haha!