AryanSkynet will not be engaged in any “doxxing” but it’s important to review the facts that have come out recently about the internet’s second most famous “neo-Nazi” website, TheRightStuff.biz, and the people behind it.
The guy [Mike Enoch] behind the internet’s second most famous “neo-Nazi” website:
1. Worked for the longest standing and most famous CIA front company, Time Inc.
2. Was featured as a “regular guy” interview on CNN.
3. Was a pro-Jewish, pro-libertarian Zionist for years until he turned on a dime and became a stereotypical (((Hollywood Nazi))) overnight.
4. Lives on Manhattan’s Upper East side – in other words, the second most Jewish neighborhood in the most Jewish borough in the most Jewish city on the entire earth.
5. Works in a typically Jewish industry at a company likely owned and managed by Jews.
6. Doesn’t seem to be Jewish himself but very well could be. Has a wife with a stereotypically Jewish name, but who looks like a relatively typical Anglo-German. So may or may not be Jewish or half-Jewish themselves, but it’s virtually impossible for them to not have an overwhelmingly Jewish professional and personal circle of friends, co-workers, neighbors, and acquaintances. One can imagine the cognitive dissonance it takes to spend most of your time working and socializing with Jewish people then going online to LARP as the internet’s biggest “Nazi” complete with wink-wink jokes about sticking all the Jews into ovens, etc.
7. TheRightStuff.biz were outed by their own fellow fake “Nazis” for apparently trying to sneak “Jews and fags” into the movement.
8. TheRightStuff.biz, along with the (((Daily Stormer))) are the main online properties going out of their way to associate anything pro-White, and the “Alt Right” particularly, with (((Hollywood Nazism.))) And both online properties are essentially run by Jews and Jew-friendly shabbos goyim, not despite being “hard core Nazis.” The fact that they pose as “hard core Nazis” is BECAUSE both outfits are run by Jews and shabbos goyim. All “neo-Nazis” are Jews or shabbos goyim – that is the Iron Law of American politics since the death of the first Costume Clown, George Lincoln Rockwell.
9. TheRightStuff.biz and the (((Daily Stormer))) are the center of the “neo-Nazis for Trump” movement which has two rather interesting effects. One, to associate Trump and Trump voters with the worst stereotypes of “racist nazi hitler anti-semite KKKs.” Two, getting pro-whites – and especially those who are suspicious of Jewish power and influence – behind Trump, the most pro-Israel, pro-Jewish, pro-Likud presidential candidate in American history.
10. TheRightStuff.biz and the (((Daily Stormer))) are the main coordinators of the internet trolls that attack any pro-white figure that won’t play act as a “neo-Nazi.” Both websites are instrumental in attacking normal pro-whites as “cucks” and “Jews” and “cowards,” etc. They are the main organizing point of the “Internet Tough Guys” who are “more Nazi than thou.” And both sites are run by Jews and Jew-friendly Whites.
11. Both websites – TheRightStuff.biz and the (((Daily Stormer))) – are run by people who were typical philo-semitites and pro-Israel types, in the case of Anglin, openly anti-white and pro-Jewish, that turned on a dime and became “hard core neo-Nazis” virtually overnight.
12. The facts about these people were well known, discussed on the internet for years, and barely hidden. But whenever these concerns were brought up, those pointing out the obvious were attacked, slandered, and in many cases threatened by the so-called “troll army” of “neo-Nazis.”
13. When they were unable to hide the basic facts any longer, they just responded “we’re just joking and trolling any way, lighten up!”
14. Mike Enoch was the one who ran to the front of the stage at the NPI conference and did a “Heil Hitler” for The Atlantic’s cameras, which was then featured in the Jewish media, edited purposefully to make the entire event seem as close to a “Nazi rally” as possible. While Mike Enoch had his identity protected by NPI, The Atlantic, and the Jewish media – other people involved – the ones that did NOT pose in front of the cameras and “Heil Hitler” – were not so lucky, and many have lost their jobs and been slandered by the media for simply attending a conference – a conference that, up until that point, never engaged in anything close to “Nazi LARPing.”
Update: According to this, Mike Enoch himself admits that his wife is “who they say she is” which is apparently an acknowledgement that she is Jewish and even that she worked to promote “diversity” at NSA.
Notice the petulant concern trolling Mike engages in, suggesting that he doesn’t want people to “leave the movement” over this – as if Mike Enoch himself is “the movement” and the only reason anyone ever cared about the future of white people and the 14 words is because of him.
If Mike Enoch was the real counter-semite he pretends to be – he and his wife and his children would be on the next plane to Tel Aviv. But we know that won’t happen, because Mike Enoch isn’t really “pro-white” and he is obviously not against his own wife and children.
COMMENTS:
* If Enoch isn’t fired from his job – I call shenannigans. Hundreds, maybe thousands, of people have been fired from their jobs within hours of such internet “outings.”
And it’s not like Enoch just made a few “politically incorrect” jokes or an ill-advised tweet. Oh no, he is one of the internet’s most famous “Alt Right Nazi” and was featured prominently – although anonymously – in the recent NPI scandal.
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* “I got all angsty and neurotic and paranoid about what the goyim think about me, and I decided to stop annoying them,” said no Jew, ever. Nope, he got all angsty and neurotic and paranoid about the goyim, because they need to change.
* I think here in Israel we have only one country club and I don’t think we have any Arab members. Maybe that should change?
* There is a certain type of Jewish man who is “not handy”. I think they regard it as a point of pride that they are incapable of so much as hammering a nail. It confirms to themselves their identity as knowledge workers who don’t have to get their hands dirty and who can afford to pay others to do such menial work that is beneath their dignity as professionals. Maybe it also gets them out of having to do stuff around the house – they just tell their wives to call the plumber while they go golfing.
Also consider many Jews are germophobes like Trump. If you have ever snaked a drain (I have), what comes out of the far end of the snake is not very sanitary.
* Not being handy extends to automotive activities. My wife’s classmate was driving them to an event and got a flat tire. He laughed off the inability to change the tire and waved his cell phone to say he’d just call the auto club. What if he had been out of cell range? Who does not plan ahead, or learn basic life skills?
* Let’s say you were a plumber or a mechanic and urgently needed an explication of dialectical materialism. Would you read the Collected Works of Marx and Engels and A Short Course on the History of the CPSU, (J. Stalin, author) or would you just call up a Jewish intellectual to explain it to you?
* What has always puzzled me about “Great-Grandpa Sy’s story” is why, when he suffered the injustice of exclusion from a restricted club, he went out and started his own exclusive and restricted club.
Why didn’t Sy start a non-exclusive and unrestricted country club?
* I share Ned Resnikoff’s anxiety in reverse nowadays: I meet someone of my own class (if not Jewish then at least overeducated), I have an interest in his liking me, but as he makes doomsday comments about the coming era of Trump (a common form of icebreaking these days) I wonder if he has any inkling that inside I’m laughing.
* kike (n.)
derogatory slang for “a Jew,” by 1901, American English; early evidence supports the belief that it was used at first among German-American Jews in reference to newcomers from Eastern Europe, perhaps because the names of the latter ended in -ki or -ky.
“There is no charity organization of any kind here [a small city in Pennsylvania] and, what is sadder to relate, the Jews in this city will not form one; that is, if the present temper of the people can be used as a criterion. The German Jews are bitterly opposed to the “Kikes,” as they persist in calling the Russian Jews …. ”
[“Report of the National Conference of Jewish Charities in the United States,” Cleveland, 1912]
First, as early as 1925, a higher percentage of Jews than gentiles may have belonged to country clubs.
Second, Jewish country clubs were, on average, more luxurious and expensive than gentile clubs.
Third, a 1962 study by the Anti-Defamation League found that Jewish country clubs were more discriminatory than Christian clubs.
Fourth, historically, Jewish applicants were mostly excluded for ethnic reasons by Jewish country clubs.”
About German Jews vs other Jews:
“Sports Illustrated reported in 1962:
In larger cities one sometimes finds two or more Jewish clubs, the top one composed principally of German Jews who tend to find eastern European Jews unacceptable.”
And:
“According to the Encyclopedia Judaica:
Since Jews were frozen out of local country clubs, they established the Hillcrest in 1883 for German Jews, and the Fairmont in 1920, for East European Jews.”
And:
“Stephen Birmingham writes:
But now, in nearly every American city of any size, there were at least two Jewish country clubs—the “good” one (German), and the less good (Russian). In New York, the best Jewish country club was the Germans’ Century Country Club in suburban White Plains [now Purchase]. The second-best was the Russians’ Sunningdale Golf Club in Scarsdale.
Birmingham observed in “Our Crowd”:
For years the Century was an almost exclusively German club, with an unwritten rule against “Orientals.”
The Century Country Club built its first golf course in 1908 (Sunningdale’s course opened in 1918), but didn’t begin to admit Russian Jews until after World War II. Birmingham notes in The Rest of Us:
Bastions of German-Jewish supremacy were falling on all sides by the 1940s. … At the Century Country Club, which considered itself not only the best Jewish club in New York but the best Jewish country club on earth, and where the anti-Russian bias had been all but written into the bylaws for generations, a few Russians were now being cautiously taken in as members, and one of the first of these, in 1948, was the Flatbush-born Dr. Herman Tarnower, the son of Russian immigrants.”
* The 1962 Sports Illustrated article on country clubs looked at Springfield, MA where there were four country clubs. The Jewish club was the most expensive and snazziest, the WASP club (with a few Catholics) was the most prestigious, the Irish Catholic club was a tier down, and the Italian, Polish, French Canadian club was a tier below that.
* 1/ So you now accept there were two types of country clubs, with at least one (German) Jewish and one waspy in each town. Which do you think Eastern Jews primarily aspired to join?
2/ Even assuming that they wanted to join the waspy club (probably after being rejected by the German Jewish one), how disingenuous it is to accuse WASPs of anti-Semitism when they were perfectly aware how Jewish clubs were even more exclusive? Do they think that while it’s perfectly normal for Jews to be super-exclusive (to the point of excluding even most fellow Jews), it’s abnormal for gentiles to be so? Of the super-exclusiveness of Jewish clubs is now totally forgotten, i.e. retconned out of existence, so that no cognitive dissonance will have to occur. (Not that most Jews would even understand the contradiction of calling exclusive waspy clubs anti-Semitic while finding super-exclusive German Jewish clubs perfectly normal.)
3/ Let me go out on a limb and without knowing much of US country club history propose that probably waspy country clubs excluded other non-WASPs like the Irish or Italians. (I’m not sure if there were many rich Catholic Hungarian gentiles at the time, but I guess they would not have been welcome either.) Calling a simple ethnic preference for their own (which, as we are well aware, was also characteristic of Jews) as anti-Semitic implies that Jews were somehow singled out. Surely that was not the case.
* Catholicism, over the course of the Middle Ages, came to been seen in many Northern European nations as pernicious foreign influence. It shouldn’t be hard to figure out why.
The key word here is foreign.
In England, especially, Catholics were viewed as fifth-columnists, traitors, etc. It didn’t help that some of the most staunchly Catholic nations were England’s traditional enemies (France, Spain, the Irish).
The Puritans were called “Puritans” by their opponents because they wanted to purge Popery from the CoE.
Connect the dots.
* Virtually all of us are obliged in the course of our day to day lives to deal with strangers – that is persons with whom we were are quite unfamiliar and with whom we were never raised, or at least, known for a long course of time so that we are familiar with their personalities, habits, character, characteristics, thought processes etc. As we all know, individuals differ markedly in all of these attributes – and with the ‘stranger’ we will never ever but know the experiences, nurturing or lack of it, traumas, imparted prejudices, customs, culture etc with which he was raised – despite all the best of intentions, and even if the individual is of a similar background and ethnicity to oneself.
The way that humans cope with this, especially in the way that today’s world throws disparate people together in the world of work, education etc, is by a common understood protocol of manners and etiquette, at least until individuals are able to ‘lower their guard’ somewhat by having an internalized understanding of each other.
But I’m afraid, once people start behaving like Resnikoff and start to fear strangers like one would fear a wild animal, the whole system breaks down, and interactions between the unfamiliar – think of all the good that has come from them, from Lennon and MacCartney upwards – simply become impossible due to the fear factor.
Then the ‘relationship’ becomes no better than that between a rabbit and a fox.
* In the South there were NO white hotels that would take colored. Blacks stayed in rooming houses in their end of town. It didn’t even occur to them that they could stay in white hotels.
The same legend exists for the park near the Bund in Shanghai (“NO DOGS OR CHINESE”) but in real life, there was a sign with maybe 10 different rules on it (you’ve seen these signs posted at park entrances) and maybe rule #3 was “the park is reserved for members of the foreign community” and #7 was “dogs are not permitted”. Outside of Nazi Germany, racism usually wore a “polite” face .
There’s also a legend that some hotel advertised “Always a view, never a Jew” but I’ve never seen proof of that either. It was usually done very discretely with a little “restricted” plaque in the ads (as you can see) and behind the check-in desk. Jews at the time knew what was going on and would take the hint – everyone knew what restricted meant. If a Jewish customer wandered in by mistake, they’d be told “I’m afraid there’s no room available for you Mr. Goldberg.
* Most of my Hungarian friends think that being opposed to immigration means I’m a literal Nazi who wants to gas six million Jews and mass murder anyone not having blue eyes and light hair. Also having a fetish for Nazi uniforms and doing the Roman salute several times a day.
* The “New World Order” became more apparent during Clinton and the dismemberment of Yugoslavia was the first shot at Russia. During GHWB’s term it still looked as if a “friendship with Russia” was possible.
There is something about GHWB that makes me think that he actually did not want to go along with the Big Plan. He was not really eager to attack Iraq. Then he stopped and did not conquer whole of Iraq. He was sincere about peace dividends. He tried to curtail funding of Israel. So it should not be surprising that he was not reelected. Perrot role was similar to that of Teddy Roosevelt when Wilson run against the incumbent Taft. This is the reason Clinton won. GHWB knew he was not supposed to win. He showed impatience and irritation during debates (looked at his watch). GWB was upset that his father did no win and he knew exactly who was responsible for it. Seven years later Prince Bandar told GWB that he can outfox the people who did not like his father by pretending that he will go along with their plans but it was GWB who was outfoxed by them.
* Whatever his flaws, Bush I handled the meltdown of the Warsaw Pact/Soviet Union so well he made it look easy. So easy, he doesn’t get credit for the US part in making sure nothing went sideways.
I always thought the world beat the odds by getting through that era of history without a single nuke or other WMD going off anywhere. Things were totally out of control there, read about the Soviet bio-weapons program, in complete violation of treaty, for an example.
* Tradesmen in the San Fernando Valley are now frequently Israelis.
* Jews have a long and strong tradition of quickly forgetting their own sins (unless they should make it into a Jewish religious text, a practice I assume has been moribund for centuries), and a similar tradition of forgetting no one’s sins against them; why should they be any different on this issue?
I’m not sure anyone is saying that there was no White-on-Jew discrimination, or that all White-on-Jewish discrimination is retconned Jewish-on-Jewish discrimination. It seems to me that people are saying that Jews will have a strong tendency, the further they get from the actual events, to displace the blame for Jew-on-Jew discrimination from Jews, to Whites. And that a significant portion of what is “remembered” as White-on-Jewish discrimination, was actually Jewish-on-Jewish.
* Long ago I worked for a guy in his late 20s who told me, rather smugly, that all in all he considered himself a Marxist. I said, “Great! I’ve wanted to meet someone who could explain dialectical materialism and the labor theory of value.”
Unsurprisingly, he had no idea what I was talking about.
* “San Francisco provides an example of how some Jews can ignore reality. Polls taken by the San Francisco Jewish Community Federation found that one-third of Jewish residents believed that a Jew could not be elected to Congress from San Francisco. The poll reported these results in 1985 at a time all three members of Congress from the city were Jewish as were two state senators, the mayor and a plurality of the city council.”
Seymour Lipset,
American Pluralism and the Jewish Community, 1990,
p. 156
* And then there’s the time that I was talking to a Jewish Democratic Party organizer….He told me that, prior to the 1960s, Jews could not hold office in the South, that the people there would never vote for a Jew….He was flabbergasted when I told him about Judah P Benjamin.
* I have noticed more than a few Jewish urban legends over the years…..For example, I’ve actually had colleagues (people with phds in English lit) tell me that Jews could not get into Harvard in the 1930s. They were quite shocked when I told them that that was simply untrue:
“Although many minority groups were negatively impacted by these policies, one of the groups affected was Jewish applicants, whose admission to some New England and New York City-area liberal arts universities fell significantly between the late 1910s and the mid-1930s.[12] For instance, the admission to Harvard University during that period fell from 27.6% to 17.1% and in Columbia University from 32.7% to 14.6%.”
* What a cocoon Mr Resnikoff lives in – despite making a living aggressively proposing policy for the entire country. He is so rarely in the company of a middle-aged, white southern gentleman that he feels the experience is worth sharing. Even though the white southerner is a “consummate professional” and “perfectly nice”, Resnikoff feels a sense of danger, insecurity and unpredictability that he expects never to be able to shake off.
If he had posted something like this about the visit of a black tradesman, he would not only lose his job, he would never work again in any role with public visibility.
Mr Resnikoff is not only racist and proudly so, he is privileged in ways that he cannot even imagine.
* It’s an article of faith among Irish-Americans that the Irish were mistreated horribly in 19th-century America. America, not England!
It’s certainly not hard to believe that many Irish people have been mistreated, in America and elsewhere. Every ‘people’ has met with mistreatment over the centuries.
Ted Kennedy and Tip O’Neil both related personal memories of “No Irish Need Apply” signs in furtherance of their political objectives. Likewise the “No negroes, no dogs, no Irish” signs which never actually existed, but have been physically retconned into existence by purveyors of cutesie wall-hangings by which modern people of Irish descent can advertise their victim status.
Don’t believe me! But if you are interested, read Journal of Social History 36.2 (2002) 405-429
“No Irish Need Apply”: A Myth of Victimization Richard Jensen
…there’s no quicker way to infuriate an ethnic partisan than to question his sacred remembrance of discrimination. Even if (or particularly if) said remembrance is actually hearsay upon hearsay. It’ll infuriate him because in modern America no status is remotely comparable to official victim status. It’s to be protected at all costs, because from it all good things come.
* What has always puzzled me about Jews’ supposed “leftism” is why, after all the injustice they claim to have endured, and all their advocating for leftism and anti-ethnocentrism in the diaspora, they went out and started their own right-wing ethno-state in Israel?
* Speaking of “Great Moments in Self-Awareness” here’s the NYT on the new “World’s 8 Richest Have as Much Wealth as Bottom Half of Global Population” meme.
Simply by divesting these eight men, we could double the wealth of half of humanity! What’s not to love?
Only four or five of them are of the Tribe, depending on how you’re counting.
* If you were an arriviste Russian-Jew in the 1920s, would you even try to join the WASP club?No, you would know that you would be turned down. So, you give the German-Jewish club a shot….and they turn you down…..and maybe you remember them snickering “mockie” as you leave….And then, via generational Telephone/Chinese Whispers, your great-grandchildren tell stories about how the WASPs wouldn’t let great-grandpa in…
* I think there is a general weariness towards ethnic grievances and complaining.
The more of obnoxious of these grievances are Jews complaining that their grandfathers couldn’t join a country club even though he was rich enough to pay all the dues. He had to build his own golf course from scratch, don’t ya know! I don’t resent successful people but I think they need to have some self-awareness.
So yes, colleges, golf courses, resorts, and luxury coops did discriminate against Jews. No its not OK. But USA got over its antisemitism. US Jews need to get over their grievances.
I attended a high school graduation last year. The valedictorian was Jewish. He congratulated himself of being valedictorian “as the great grandson of a Jewish immigrant.” Enough already.
* I’m one of those guys who uses the phone to unplug my drain, and I’m not Jewish. Overeducated and underskilled, I’d say. A Jewish friend from NYC used to use our house in semi rural MA for his summer place when we were away. I asked him to cut the lawn- he did, but told me the clippings kept falling out the side. I asked him if he’ emptied the bag periodically – he said no. I then asked him if he’d ever cut a lawn before- his reply was something like “Jews hire people like you to do that sort of thing”.
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Comment: A nation isn’t just about ideas and values, but ethnos and history. It’s about roots and identity. After all, if a 100 million Hindus, Chinese, or Nigerians believe in ‘British values’, should UK allow them in? Well, UK may still remain ‘democratic’ and have night clubs, but it won’t be UK anymore. It’s like Israel is more than about ‘liberal democracy’. (Besides, it is a nationalist-democracy than a liberal one.)
This is truer of Europe than of the New World nations.
New World civilizations were created from above, that is to say they didn’t grow from below, from the soil(even though one could argue that successive generations of white pioneers and settlers did produce a narrative of roots and history). When the Europeans arrived in the New World, they had already developed highly advanced civilizations in the Old World, and they had a ready-made formula for what to do in the new land. Spanish imposed from above their Spanish system of rule and culture.
And Anglos in the North imposed from above their formula already developed in Britain.
It’s like, if we were to settle Mars, we would be doing it from above. We would land on Mars with a formula for civilization and it would be an extension of what we have on Earth. It would not be a civilization that organically and independently grew from Mars soil.
In contrast, every European nation is organic. It developed from the European soil by peoples who’d settled in certain parts for eons. Even though there were migrations and flow of ideas and sciences, certain peoples came to be identified with certain lands as the burial grounds of their ancestors. Thus, the land became the motherland. So, those civilizations grew from the ground. They rose from below than was imposed from above. So, each European has a deep and rich history. So, what globalism is doing to Europe is far more terrible and tragic than what is happening in the New World of North and South America whose roots are shallower and where the civilizations were imposed from above over whatever — savages or native civilizations — had existed earlier.
Globalism cut off white Europeans from their ancestral ties. They no longer drill into the past for the rich oil of history that fuels pride, inspiration, and will to survive. They’ve lost their vertical connection to the soil below them. They just have a veri-horizontal relation to globalism that connects all nations with the same offering of glossy pop culture, PC, and pseudo-cults like homomania. They are offered the synthetic plastic of globalism that says all cultures and peoples are ‘fluid’ like 50 genders.
It’s funny. Progs tell us that it was a terrible thing that happened to the American Indians and Blacks. American Indians were expelled from their ancestral lands, and they were cut off from their roots. They were forced to pledge to the US flag and worship a different God. And same with blacks who were cut off from Africa and cultural roots.
So, there’s been much noise about how it’s important for blacks to look back to Africa, reconnect, and enrich their identity with this reclamation of organic history and ties.
But when Europeans seek the same by rejecting inane & trashy globalism and dig into the soil of memory and history for identity, roots, and heritage, it is condemned as ‘far right’ and evil. Or, it is associated with Nazism. But in fact, the blood-and-soil aspect of Nazism was not the evil. I mean what harm could have come of Germans feeling a deep connection with their own land? The evil resulted from Germans violating the blood-and-soil sacredness of other peoples such as Poles, Czechs, and Russians. And in the end, it was the love of motherland that inspired the nationalists to resist and roll back the invasive Nazi tide. Nazi evil was imperialism, not blood and soil. Blood-and-soil ideology is about sticking to your own sacred land and respecting the sacredness of other nations to other peoples.
Merkel is the evil bitch because she has despoiled her own motherland by inviting mass invasion and then put pressure on other nations(some of them victimized in WWII) to also surrender to mass invasion. (She is like one of those low-life single-mothers who invite ‘boyfriends’ into her home and look the other way while her daughters are raped.) Merkel is just a ‘liberal Hitler’, and both came undone by violating the rule of blood-and-soil, the idea of a civilization that, instead of being imposed instantly from above, developed gradually, richly, beautifully, and tragically over a long long period on a particular patch of land.
A civilization form above is like taking a full-grown tree and sticking it in a new ground.
A civilization from below is like a big tall tree that grew from a seed over a long time on the ground it stands. It has a truly organic tie to the land.
Europe is like that, but globalism turned everyone so shallow and amnesiac.
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* I wouldn’t mind seeing certain kinds of Think Tanks flourishing,….You know, ones with the right set of beliefs……Let’s see, a good litmus test would involve seeing how they respond to the fabled Fourteen Words:
“We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children.”
If they are on board with that, give ‘em some dough. If they balk, starve ‘em out via monetary malnutrition.
* Somehow I don’t think that the Haim Saban Center for Middle East Policy is going to fold up shop anytime soon.
* As a financial contributor, I’ve been to events at Peter Brimelow’s home. He lives comfortably but not lavishly. He does pay people who write for him, which sounds like those “leased employees.” He himself works nearly non-stop. I don’t think there’s much waste or pocket-lining at VDare.
* Four white classic pocket passer quarterbacks lead their teams to the final round of the NFL playoffs (like so many other years) and all around the country the football industry at every level is DESPERATELY SEEKING RUNNING QUARTERBACKS.
* If you have no coherent nation, you can have no coherent national interest. As for “think tanks as we know them,” good riddance!
* A pretty good way to run American foreign and domestic policy in the US is to read the editorial page of the Wash Po and the NY Times and do the exact opposite of whatever they recommend. This is really a rare talent – any fool could be wrong about various policy choices some of the time just by making random guesses (even the Magic 8 Ball gives you the right answer sometimes), but to be as CONSISTENTLY wrong as they have takes a special talent.
* Think tanks seem to do about three different things:
a. Provide jobs for a few smart people to think deeply and write about some topic of interest.
b. Provide intellectual hired guns to advocate for your positions.
c. Provide sinecures for important people moving between government, media, and academia.
Only (c) is threatened by Trump.
* Yeah, have also thrown $ vdare’s way, but am philosophical about their budget. There are probably a few heavyweights who give them >$100,000 per year, but given the importance (existential) of the issues they cover, I feel they should have not just a higher budget, but a much better website & reach. Their addition of RadioDerb & their Twitter log have been big pluses. Something one must factor in is that many/most of their columnists are top notch (esp Fitzpatrick) and would easily be drawing big bucks @ legacy media organs in a pre-Neocon world before the advent of Doxxing & Crimethink patrols.
The other thing to remember is that they are a mini David to the SPLC’s Borg Goliath (sitting on a cash heap of >$240M or so?)
* The Necons have been so successful because they either took over “conservative” think tanks or created their own foreign policy think tanks.
* VDARE, to those who even are aware of its existence, is regarded as a “hate group”. Lobbying Congress would be a waste of time, effort and money. VDARE should just keep doing what it has been doing. The periodic gains made are small, but they are solid, no-turning-back gains.
* Realism, per John Mersheimer, involves a realistic and much narrower view of American interests, which would lead to a much less interventionist foreign policy. To wit: No need to invade the world.
However, *not* doing a lot of stuff has little or no value for one’s career. Everything is predicated on work that involves ‘improving things’ through doing stuff. Lengthy studies and analyses on problems that the author has ideas regarding how to solve by doing something.
I find this theory oddly compelling, because it doesn’t assume horrible decisions are caused by more than simple careerism. You don’t need a deep state or a malevolent elite or the Trilateral Commission.
The defining example of this view is the lead up to the Iraq War.
Meanwhile, their counterparts in Think Tanks were strongly in favor of it. Even Leslie Gelb, the Senior Editor of the Pentagon Papers was in favor of it.
Since we have already done these idiot things, a hypothetical resume that had bullet points stating that the individual didn’t invade Iraq, didn’t support intervention in Lybia, didn’t intervene in Somalia, didn’t expand NATO, etc — the individual with that resume would appear to be a superstar.
But had that person or persons succeeded, and we hadn’t ‘invaded the world’ … would have nothing on the resume. ‘I didn’t implement regime change in Syria’ would sound — sort of idiotic. “All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”
But that doesn’t do much for one’s career.
The point being that there is a good reason to get rid of these holding pens for careerists who want to make a mark on the world.
It is like people that can’t take yes for an answer. We won WW 2 by crushing the enemy and destroying their industrial base and allowing them to severely damage the industrial base of our allies.
We won the Cold War.
But mere winning — even enormous victories — wasn’t sufficient. Since the next step after winning is to sit quietly in a room and let our industrial economy cash in on it.
* It’s why nobody respects Eisenhower as a great president, though all of the things he didn’t do that his successors did (send lots of troops to Vietnam, launch ill-conceived antipoverty programs) show he had great judgment. Sometimes the smartest thing to do is nothing, even if it doesn’t do much for your legacy. The last president who I really thought put country ahead of party was Bush Sr.–last of the old WASPs, probably not coincidentally.
* When the British had a world empire they founded the field of anthropology to try to understand the nature of the societies they ruled. But here we are into the fifteenth year of our wars in the Middle East and still American leaders remain clueless about the true nature of these clan-based, tribal societies which, thanks to people like Steve and hbdchick, ordinary citizens have come to appreciate. They knock off Quaddafi and Libya disintegrates into anarchy. Who knew? Next up, Assad.
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