As we are about to usher in the High Holidays, the United States Congress will be voting about whether we should respond to the terrible crime against humanity committed by the Assad regime in Syria. Enclosed is a letter (see below) we have just sent to each U.S. Senator and Representative urging them to vote for the President’s proposal of a limited strike against the Assad regime.
I have no doubt that Simon Wiesenthal, who spent his whole life preserving the legacy of the Holocaust would have been the first to speak out against such a crime.
Wishing you and your family a healthy and happy New Year!
Rabbi Marvin Hier
Founder and Dean
Simon Wiesenthal Center
September 3, 2013
It was seventy-one years ago in August 1942, just a few weeks before Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, that Gerhard Riegner, the World Jewish Congress representative in Switzerland informed the US and British governments of the diabolical plan to exterminate Europe’s Jews using gas. Riegner had learned of the plan from a source close to the highest Nazi officials, German industrialist Eduard Schulte. Both governments were skeptical about the information and tragically wasted precious months doing nothing about it. By 1945, six million Jews were murdered; most gassed in Nazi death camps in what became known as the Holocaust, the greatest crime in the annals of human history.
Since then every American President, British Prime Minister and other political leaders around the world have pledged again and again that they will never allow history to repeat itself.
But on August 29, 2013, when the British parliament was presented with incontrovertible evidence that the regime of Syria’s President Bashar Assad used illegal chemical weapons against his own people, murdering 1,400 innocent men, women and children, they again opted to do nothing.
Now, on September 9, it will be up to you to vote, following President Obama’s request for Congressional approval before embarking on a limited strike against the Assad regime.
On behalf of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, we urge you to vote for the limited strike, because to do otherwise would only embolden the perpetrators and encourage them to gas more victims, while at the same time signaling the world that America’s assurances and promises mean nothing at all.
This may not be the perfect solution, but it will send a dramatic signal to the Assad regime and all others, that you will have to pay a very high price if you continue to perpetrate such crimes against humanity.
As you contemplate your vote, we ask you to reflect on the lesson taught in the Ethics of the Fathers, “In a place where there are no men (leaders), strive to be a man (leader).”
We hope you will support taking action against Assad’s crimes against humanity.
Thank you and Happy New Year,
Rabbi Marvin Hier
Founder and Dean
Simon Wiesenthal Center
Rabbi Abraham Cooper
Associate Dean
Simon Wiesenthal Center
A specter is haunting Cleveland, the specter of the Alt Right.
The Alt Right in the United States is a small but growing intellectual movement that seeks to resist the dilution of “White” people, both as a matter of biology and an imagined culture pale people share. They see the United States and Europe as the natural realm of white people. Unlike the Nazis, who argued for the extermination of other races, the Alt Right denies White Supremacy by saying they just want their culture for themselves. It’s predicated upon the notion of separating people based on appearance and ancestry.
Richard Spencer, an author and activist associated with the Alt Right movement, is one of the people lending intellectual legitimacy to the Donald Trump campaign. Spencer and his ilk envision a world where Europeans have control over their own geographic region, somewhere, and other colors of human beings are kept out by force to maintain a “monoculture” for light skinned people.
Articulate and casually dressed, they don’t look like Nazis. They look just like anybody else.
Spencer also has a complex conceptual relationship with Israel. He admires Israel as striving for a “monoculture” and its aims at racial purity but he disdains the Israel lobby. He’s much less ambivalent about the Official Republican Party Presidential Candidate Donald Trump, nominated officially Wednesday. “Trump is a peace candidate,” Spencer proclaims.
On the day the RNC began, Spencer made no bones about it.
“Trump’s convention has been about Being and Death,” Spencer tweeted, a cryptic nod to 20th century German philosopher Martin Heidegger. “He is the greatest man in my lifetime #RNCinCLE.”
Spencer’s is one of the brighter stars in the philosophical firmament above Trump’s teeming audience, to whom Trump promises to win big. The left laughs at Trump, and perhaps imagines humor will defeat him in November. Or something. But Spencer’s bio boasts a masters from the University of Chicago. They aren’t just giving those out to anybody. Spencer is smart, sure, why not, but being smart doesn’t produce good ideas. Isaac Newton was smart but he spent half of his career tinkering around with alchemy which is total bullshit. The Alt Right is political alchemy. Huffing a brown paper bag of mercury or lead would achieve the same effect.
There is a reason you should fear men like Spencer: They lend an intellectual element to the Trump campaign, which has distinguished itself with a number of boneheaded typos. Spencer is well spoken, and a great propagandist when speaking to someone he can distract with meaningless historical analogies to Rome, which he imagines as the perfect White Empire.
Of course, he’s completely wrong about that. Romans came in all kinds of colors and languages, but the social construct that mattered back then wasn’t race, it was religion. Race only started to matter in something resembling modern way after the Transatlantic slave trade began. Many slaves in the Roman world were fair skinned. Ausonius has a whole poem about a German servant girl he really dug. The Romans had captured her in conquering a slice of Europe. Gross and creepy on Ausonius’s part, but those were gross and creepy times Spencer romanticizes.
When I mentioned Augustine of Hippo, a Christian Roman sage and one of the pillars of what’s called Western philosophy, hailed Carthage, a place in North Africa where people are sometimes tan, Spencer rejected the assertion.
“Carthage is a White area,” he said, despite its being in Africa, in modern day Libya.
The Alt Right tries hard to sound smart, but its ideas are based on shockingly little real information, no matter how intricate and highfalutin they appear to be.
Richard Spencer, and friend Nathan Damigo at right, debate with an Abraham Lincoln impersonator outside the RNC. (Photo: Wilson Dizard)
Richard Spencer, and friend Nathan Damigo at right, debate with an Abraham Lincoln impersonator outside the RNC. (Photo: Wilson Dizard)
Spencer is a confident and fairly friendly activist who has been hanging out at the RNC giving interviews to reporters who came for mass arrests and mayhem that never materialized. He also has credentials to enter the inner sanctum. He is so confident that he even told a fellow Trump supporter who disagreed with him that he was smarter than him.
“I’m smarter than you, go away,” Spencer said. The man shuffled off. I continued the interview.
Spencer and others in the Alt Right ponder intelligence from the perspective of “race” as the most important signature of human identity. Indeed, the reason I started talking to Spencer, unknown to me but very Internet famous in some circles, were just a few words that caught my ear.
“…they generally have lower average IQs, but that’s not the point…”
So then we started talking. As I do in most of these interviews I brought up Israel eventually, but before we got there, Spencer made several points that echo the Israeli right-wing worldview. Another reporter asked him about the constitutionality of some Trump proposals, like banning Muslims from the country or ending birthright citizenship.
“Who cares? The whole point is that we’ve got to survive. Whether something is constitutionally legal I could give a shit to be honest. Survival is more important than law. You can always find a lawyer that will agree with your interpretation,” he said, admitting that Trump couldn’t say the same thing. “It’s not that big of a deal.”
“Power is what matters,” he added.
He also takes the same tact as Israel does when it comes to prohibiting Arab and Muslim immigration to the United States. He says that the government could pay them to leave, or that “we could create the conditions to make them want to leave.”
“What if they have to go back to countries where they could be killed?” I asked.
“Tough shit,” he replied, without hesitation.
I asked him what he thought about Islam and Muslims, and if he had any Muslim friends.”No, but I know enough from reading about Islam to know that it’s at war with the West,” he said. He considers Islam a militant religion bent on global domination.
“You mean like white people,” said an African American woman passing by, whom Spencer had engaged in conversation by noting her “sassy black lady look.”
He chuckled at her quip.
In the name of defeating militant Islam, Israel is no stranger to wanting to kick out even non-Arab visitors, penning Sundanese migrant laborers in in cages in the Sinai, awaiting deportation. When it comes to Palestinians, it’s rather obvious that making life unbearable for Palestinian people is an attempt to make them want to leave on their own accord.
“I respect Israel as a homogenous ethno-state, but I hate the meddling of the Israel lobby in American politics,” he said.
Many Alt-Right types feel that the United States’ system of expensive foreign entanglements are the source of our problems abroad. Israel is one of them.
As Israel is supposed to be for the Jews, so too are the United States and Europe, ideally in Spencer’s view, supposed to be for White people. I tried to argue that Europe has lots of distinct ethnic and religious and local loyalties, and Spencer acknowledged that as a hurdle.
“White people have to come together,” he said. “Race is the most important aspect of identity.”
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Missive to lawmakers on Rosh Hashanah eve calls for military action to help save thousands of lives
Leading rabbis covering the religious and political spectrum urged lawmakers in Congress to support President Obama’s plans to strike Syria to stop its use of chemical weapons.
“We write you as descendants of Holocaust survivors and refugees, whose ancestors were gassed to death in concentration camps,” said the letter sent Wednesday, on the eve of Rosh Hashanah. “We write you as a people who have faced persecution for many centuries, and are glad to have found a safe refuge where we can thrive in the United States.”
The 17 signers included Rabbi Eric Yoffie, a past president of the Union for Reform Judaism; Rabbi Yosef Blau, the rosh yeshiva at Yeshiva University; leaders of the Conservative movement; and essayists such as Leon Wieseltier and Rabbi Joseph Telushkin.
They called on Congress “with great urgency to authorize the President to use force in Syria ‘in connection with the use of chemical weapons or other weapons of mass destruction,’ as outlined in his August 31st draft legislation.
“Through this act, Congress has the capacity to save thousands of lives,” the letter said.
The authors noted that the letter was timed for before the Days of Awe between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur.
“May this coming year be one of life and creation the world over, in which we cease to witness the deaths of so many innocent human beings,” it said.
Comments posted at Times of Israel website:
* These few rabbis should be ashamed of themselves using the High Holy Days to promote a blatantly political agenda and in the process making a outrageous analogy of the Syrian rebels to the innocent and unarmed Jewish men, women and children who perished in the Holocaust. Thank G-d my rabbi was not among this lot because it would have been the last day in the synagogue for one of us.
* I wonder if these US rabbis understand the Biblical and prophetic ramifications of what US intervention might mean? Isaiah 17 tells of the total destruction of Damascus and also much damage and desolation occurring in Israel. For the US, it’s a lose-lose situation. These things in Isaiah will take place, but, ultimately, Israel will eventually be victorious and overcome because of God, while Israel’s enemies will be destroyed.
* These guys don’t represent me, nor do I believe, the majority of American Jews.
* US Rabbi’s are just as blind as obama’s followers. They have no Idea what they are asking for. Perhaps they should read the book of Isaiah and Daniel perhaps then they will “stand down”.
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The anti-terror effort must go on. Pressure all the jihadist regimes.
JERUSALEM — Though Syria was conspicuously omitted from President Bush’s “axis of evil,” the regime of Bashar Assad has now replaced Saddam Hussein as the Arab world’s leading supporter of terrorism and stockpiler of weapons of mass destruction.
Syria is the only Arab country that actively backed Hussein, reportedly encouraging suicide bombers to cross into Iraq, sheltering Iraqi war fugitives and possibly storing nonconventional weapons for Hussein.
By focusing on those provocations, the Bush administration is correcting a serious flaw in its war against terrorism. The region’s most vicious terrorist groups, including Hamas and Islamic Jihad, maintain operational centers in Damascus. As one administration insider put it, any taxi driver in the Syrian capital knows the address of half a dozen terrorist groups.
Worse, Syria arms and protects the Lebanese terrorist group Hezbollah. Until Sept. 11, Hezbollah held the world record in the number of Americans killed through terrorism. In two suicide bombings in the 1980s, Hezbollah murdered 260 American soldiers stationed in Lebanon and Saudi Arabia. No terror organization maintains greater global reach than Hezbollah, whose cells and fund-raising network extend to six continents. Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage recently noted that Hezbollah “may be the [terrorists’] A-team, while Al Qaeda may be actually the B-team.”
Syria’s support for Hezbollah endangers the entire Middle East. Since Israel’s withdrawal from Lebanon in May 2000, Hezbollah has reportedly placed up to 10,000 Iranian-supplied missiles along the Israeli border. Those missiles, capable of reaching every town and industrial center in the Galilee, were delivered through the Syrian army, which controls Lebanon. If another regional Arab-Israeli war occurs, the probable trigger won’t be Palestinian terrorism but Hezbollah’s missiles.
It may well be in Israel’s interest to have a destabilized Syria and a destabilized Iraq, but it sure is not in America’s interests or Europe’s interests.
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I wonder if the Japanese company would have been as cavalier about Japanese lives? I wonder if an American company would have been so cavalier about American lives.
This is an argument against free trade. Multinationals might not be as concerned about the well-being of their customers, suppliers and workers.
Faced with superbug outbreaks in three countries by early 2013, Japanese device giant Olympus Corp. told U.S. executives not to issue a broad warning to American hospitals about potentially deadly infections from tainted medical scopes, internal emails show…
All told, at least 35 people at U.S. hospitals have died since 2013 – three of them at UCLA’s Ronald Reagan Medical Center – after suffering infections from contaminated gastrointestinal scopes manufactured by Olympus, according to hospitals and public health officials.
Olympus’ actions – and inaction – are being closely examined in lawsuits by American patients and their families who contend that the manufacturer was negligent and might have prevented the outbreaks and deaths had it been more forthcoming. In addition, federal prosecutors are investigating Olympus’ handling of the infections – and the emails could become crucial evidence in any future case.
The company’s internal emails reveal conflicts inside Olympus over how to respond to a growing threat to patient safety, pitting U.S. executives against their superiors in Japan who had the final say. The emails were filed in a Pennsylvania court this month as part of a patient lawsuit and obtained by Kaiser Health News working in collaboration with the Los Angeles Times.
Olympus, which controls 85% of the U.S. market for gastrointestinal scopes, declined to comment on the emails, citing the pending litigation. It also declined to discuss the ongoing investigation by the U.S. attorney’s office in New Jersey.
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REPORT: “Twitter lit up Friday night with allegations that it tried to suppress news that secret-leaking website Wikileaks exposed thousands of emails obtained from the servers of the Democratic National Committee.
Friday afternoon, users noted, “#DNCLeaks” was trending, with more than 250,000 tweets about it on the platform. By Friday evening, it vanished completely from the site’s “trending” bar for at least 20 minutes. It returned as “#DNCLeak” after users erupted, though it was too late to quell their rage.”
The takeaway I got from the NSA revelations was that it’s now completely reasonable to assume that Google/FB/Twitter/etc are working directly with the government or politicians.
Twitter removed #DNCLeaks right while it was the top trending topic today. Reddit paid staff has been suspending people who talk about Correct The Record or the DNC leaks. Facebook admitted to filtering certain topics due to political bias. Google just took down Wikileaks links. And while all of this is happening, there’s not a single mention of the DNC leaks on CNN, MSNBC, Politico, etc.
You’re right, this probably was just a mistake… but is it wrong to question it? Everything I’ve learned from the NSA leaks and the DNC leaks shows that the media, politicians, the intelligence community, banks, large tech companies, etc are all working together against the public.
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I don’t believe there’s room in America for this kind of bigotry. It’s not who we are. Sad!
Politico: A top staffer at the Democratic National Committee has apologized after suggesting that the organization use Bernie Sanders’ religious beliefs against him in the Democratic primary.
One email among the thousands of internal DNC messages released this week by Wikileaks showed DNC CFO Brad Marshall questioning Sanders’ Jewish faith, and suggested that painting the candidate as an atheist “could make several points difference” in several late primary contests.
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“It might may (sic) no difference, but for KY and WVA can we get someone to ask his belief. Does he believe in a God. He had skated on saying he has a Jewish heritage. I think I read he is an atheist. This could make several points difference with my peeps. My Southern Baptist peeps would draw a big difference between a Jew and an atheist,” Marshall wrote in a message to several DNC communications directors.
The message does not mention Sanders by name, but he was the only Jewish candidate, and the email came shortly before the Kentucky and West Virginia Democratic primaries.
In a copy of a Facebook post provided by a source, Marshall said that he “deeply” regrets his “insensitive, emotional emails.” His Facebook page, upon searching, is private, and the statement is the only content viewable to the public.
The entire Facebook post: “I deeply regret that my insensitive, emotional emails would cause embarrassment to the DNC, the Chairwoman, and all of the staffers who worked hard to make the primary a fair and open process. The comments expressed do not reflect my beliefs nor do they reflect the beliefs of the DNC and its employees. I apologize to those I offended.”
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* There is a book entitled Steering the Elephant, a collection of essays by first-term Reagan Administration officials describing the obstacles that they encountered trying to implement Ronald Reagan’s programs back in the relatively sedate 1980s. It makes for very sobering reading, and the resistance to a Trump Administration will be at least an order of magnitude greater than the writers of those essays encountered. I have a high regard for Donald Trump but turning “the elephant” that is the present national government may be beyond the capabilities of any person at this stage.
* Are you unaware that Trump has had a lifetime of experience managing organizations many of which have comprised thousands of employees? In fact Trump has had a hell of a lot more management experience including delegation of authority than any president since Eisenhower.
* I don’t think Trump has a problem with high level staff. In case some missed it, he just ran an almost flawlessly brilliant national primary campaign in the face of stiff, experienced, well-financed, and well-organized opposition. The same people who are now “worried” about his ability to staff a presidential campaign were also, up until a few months ago, avidly predicting his imminent defeat in the GOP primary.
Trump also will have no problem attracting the lower-levels of volunteer and paid staff for his upcoming presidential campaign. The fervent support that many ordinary Americans express for this man guarantees no lack of volunters for campaign grunt work.
Where Trump may have a problem is building up a sufficient mid-level campaign staff. The party usually plays a major role providing these. Unfortunately, Trump must deal with packs of RINOs and establishment hacks who think the only way they can cling to their sad shreds of amour propre is by ensuring that the corrupt and dangerously inept Hillary Rodham Clinton is our next president. These traitorous scum will do everything in their power to sabotage Trump’s presidential campaign.
* Trump is more cynical and wary than most men about the innate honesty and motives of other people. He’s worked in the New York business field long enough to give him a lot of perspective about the innate goodness of mankind.
* Trump’s lack of staff almost cost him the nomination back when Ted Cruz started snarfing up delegates in backroom deals. The general election, ironically, should be a simpler matter as the rules are straightforward: just persuade the people to come out and vote for you.
Staffing will become critical once he’s president. Maybe this’ll be an opportunity to finally abolish those bureaucracies the GOP is forever promising to shut down but never does: the Departments of Education and Energy, the federal mortgage agencies, the EEOC. And turn 75% of the rest to the states.
* I think what Trump is relying on is that people in the universe of political staffers are naturally ladder climbers. What I think he’s banking on is that all he has to do is, with the force of his personality and command presence, ordain his particular brand of alt-center civic nationalism, and then he’ll hire people who are close to that way of thinking even if not precisely there, and then they’ll eventually come around to his way of thinking simply because they want to impress him.
I know it’s very possible, people doing political jobs that aren’t in tune with their personal politics, because I can see one on the other side of the mirror. I’m a fringe of the fringe alt-right neoreactionary dark enlightenment ethnonationalist white nationalist, making a living riding herd for various standard issue boilerplate lamestream conservative special interests in state government. If I was a Trump staffer, I’d have mostly the same problem, that I’d be professionally behaving to the left of my personal proclivities.
* Any company with more than 50 employees and a federal contract exceeding $50K must have a documented affirmative action policy. Dig a few ditches for NASA and you’re in the club.
Virtually every big city has similar policies for its contractors – all with the nodding approval of Uncle Sam.
My experience as a federal contractor is one of the single biggest things that turned me from a liberal to an alt-righter. In the small market for science/engineering services, many of the companies are owned by favored minorities who get preferences through the SBD and 8(a) programs. These are usually Indian or Latino immigrants retired from many years’ government service, or false fronts owned by a figurehead minority.
* Jeb had a massive machine in place across the country and it didn’t help him at all. Why? Because his central message was the dissolution of the U.S. into the NAU where whites would become 2nd class citizens. Staffing can’t fix a bad message and disliked, low energy candidate.
Furthermore, there were other opponents with very good ground games and they also lost to Trump.
Trump OTOH has a message that resonates with the white blue collars and middle-class (not so much with government workers and urban professionals) whom the GOP could never get out in any numbers since Reagan.
Look at Trump’s rallies, they’re massive. His opponents were lucky to have several hundred to a few thousand. I’ve seen Hillary’s rallies where there were more press there than supporters. If you notice the press will never do a pan of a Hillary audience. I don’t think her support is anywhere where the MSM says it is.
* The morning of the Indiana primary Trump called into one of the morning shows and was asked to comment on some audio from the day before where Cruz Sr. was speaking to some voters and, because he is a smarmy preacher type like his son, told them if you don’t vote Cruz you’re voting for evil. Trump, properly displeased, then brought up the Cruz/Oswald story that was also reported in a Miami paper (not just the National Inquirer) a day or two before. Cruz Sr. was playing hardball for his son and Trump played hardball right back. Trump’s willingness to ‘go there’ is one of the reasons why he is currently the nominee and on a glide path to victory in November.
* 1. Trump won’t need as many staffers as he’s from the private sector, not the govt. The private sector has a bottom line, remember …
2. Trump already has 20k+ competent people working for him, some of whom can be transferred to DC in a heartbeat.
3. Trump could hire as those in the private sector have always hired — using head hunters and word-of-mouth. This is a glorious chance to get rid of the deadwood in the military and government and replace them with people with a viable work ethic.
4. Trump is retirement age. He probably knows a hundred of competent, experienced and bored ex-CEOs. They’d do far better than anyone in DC.
* Donald Trump took out Pataki, Graham, Jindal, Walker, Perry, Gilmore, Santorum, Christie, Fiorina, Huckabee, Paul, Bush, Carson, Rubio, Kasich and Cruz. He did so with about 65 million dollars with 45 million coming from his own pocket. Together the other candidates spent more than 650 million dollars. They had also support from GOP establishment, Democratic establishment, media (including international media), Hollywood, Finance, Academia and Conservative Inc. In GOP race Bush, Cruz, Rubio and Carson spent about 460 million dollars. In 2012 Mitt Romney spent about 77 million dollars on the GOP race. He was backed by everybody and had a much easier ride. Romney spent about 18.5 dollar on every vote. Donald Trump spent 4.5 dollars on every vote.
Trumps strategy has been holding large events, use social media and say “outrages” (according to liberals) things so media have something to write. Right now, Donald Trump has 10.1 million followers on Twitter. Hillary Clinton has 7.6 million followers. In this round Trump has at least some support from at Fox News and the GOP. Trump has also will also have a ton of grassroots working for him. That means that he will be significantly stronger than before. Hillary and her ilk may spend 2 billion dollars. Trump and GOP would do very well with 500 million dollars. He is marketing genius. His positions have been extremely popular among voters and if he just develop and explain his positions in his RNC speech he may end up winning.
* It seems like Trump use young communication director Stephen Miller a lot. Miller worked for years for Jeff Sessions and apparently they are close to “best friends”. Miller have only held one job before he started to work for Trump and that was working as an aid for Sessions. He started working for Sessions almost straight out of college. Miller is by all account a right-wing nationalist. In fact, I wouldn’t be surprised if it was disclosed that he read Alt-Right webzines. In College, Miller experimented with everything from libertarianism to white nationalism. When I listen to Miller I think about Jason Richwine. Recent interview with Richwine at Stefan Molyneux:
* Does Trump even need a staff? He is more of a viral idea than a political candidate. A majority of Americans have watched in horror for the past four years as Obama’s chaotic world order took root and domestic black terrorists went out of their skulls, egged on by Obama’s Department of Justice. They have watched our elite universities dominated by Chinese and Indian economic migrants and our public schools fill up with a motley assortment of disruptive special needs immigrant kiddies. Change has come so fast that there are plenty of people under 60 who remember America as a much better place even during the black and hippie crime wave of the 60′s/70′s because it didn’t really affect most communities. A large majority of white Americans won’t need much persuasion to vote for Trump at this point. The coalition of fringes is starting to fray as America’s Half Blood Prince fades from the scene, and the weekly drumbeat of black, Muslim, and Hispanic demons committing atrocities is taking its toll on public sympathy for the Hope and Change doctrine. Hillary is now like a restaurant with a two star Yelp Review. The DNC is going to struggle no matter how much money they raise or how many staff they hire.
* “In order for a crew of liars to believe a person can be trusted, they generally have to hold an insurance policy. Therefore it is reasonable to assume there is something VERY DARK in the background of Tim Kaine that team Clinton know and can hold against him as insurance for silence. Your gut is already screaming at you what Kaines secret is, you just need to listen to it. (Jesuit all male school)
“Kaine is a shipwreck searching for the hidden rocks. Watch, you’ll see.”
* Once President Trump defines his federal institutional priorities, denizens of the disfavored institutions will scramble like rats from sinking ships and will vie for cross-transfer posts into the favored institutions and initiatives in which they will beaver dutifully at making America First. There is no more craven mercenary than the bureaucrat confronted with loss or diminution of his sinecure and its powers, influence, perks, and privileges. Mr. Trump is a past master of manipulating such mercenaries.
* I have had confidence for quite a while now that Trump will win handily, based on the human dynamics. Trump has hardly lost anything in his life. Meanwhile, Clinton has hardly put a foot right as Secretary of State. Between corruption, schoolmarmish PC following, drunkeness on both power and red wine giving a carelessness not before seen in a presidential nominee, this is not a prescription for agile navigation of a course to suit America’s best interests. This will play out in how Bill’s wife attempts to navigate a path to success in the general election.
We are seeing that now, with a declaration for amnesty at the outset of the campaign. She has drunk the koolaid – the “helpful” advice from the MSM about how to increase the critically important Hispanic vote. But that concern-troll advice is for Republicans, not Democrats. It’s a complete waste of time trying to win another 5% of a vote that is already going to be 70% in your camp. So she’s alienating everyone bar Hispanics and SJWs – the perfect foil for Trump. Far better to fail to disclose that plan, and appear to be a Bill-like moderate.
For all the talk of a “power couple”, Bill’s wife reminds me of the meddling, busybody wife of the big man that people are familiar with (and resent) from their own experience, whether it is on a sports team, business, or some other organization.
* If the primaries taught us anything, it’s that:
A.) voters are clamoring for more of the same,
B.) TV ads are still the best way to influence voters, and
C.) being closely associated with Wall St makes people think a candidate is trustworthy and steadfast.
The way I see it, the 2016 election is Hill’s to lose!
* I always kept on bugging my kids to do well in English when their grades appeared to be declining. One day my son said he wanted to learn Spanish fluently since it was taking over America. I said go ahead, but you’ll be competing for janitorial jobs. He was perplexed and I had to explain to him another fact of life that English is the respected language for making money internationally. The better he spoke, read and understood English then he would have better chances of making excellent money as an adult. I explained to him the world isn’t the U.N. and English is the primary language during international business meetings when there are Japanese, Germans, Chinese (pick any dialect), Indians, Italians, etc… And since he is a gringo, he would never be accepted or trusted by elites in Spanish speaking circles that control the peso. Then I tested his math skills and asked him to convert dollars to any Spanish speaking currency. Years later, he knows some Spanish & German, but his English language skills are impeccable.
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"This guy knows all the gossip, the ins and outs, the lashon hara of the Orthodox world. He’s an [expert] in... all the inner workings of the Orthodox world." (Rabbi Aaron Rakeffet-Rothkoff)
